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The Grassland Whisper

On the grasslands of Xinjiang, there resides a traditional pastoralist family with a Kazakh young man on the verge of adulthood. Amidst the rebelliousness of adolescence and a long-held divergence in educational ideals from his paternal elders, he holds a tense relationship with the traditional shepherd father. And the incident of the missing horses shatters the tranquility of the father and son’s daily life at home. In the harsh winter, they embark on a journey to find the horses, with the snow-covered hoofprints bearing witness to the young man’s transition to the adulthood.

The Grassland Whisper

NR 2023
Grounds of Coherence #1, but this is the language we met in

This is the first film in a series of works by the artist to engage with ways of coming to knowledge of the ecosystems of language. Its Chinese title translates directly as "the sky rained grain," the phrase used by the legendary Cangjie to describe the creation of Chinese characters, as recorded in the Huainanzi. Its first short film, but this is the language we met in, is where trees, teeth, and spoken words cross beyond the threshold of re-relating. Many elements in the film are of a learning process, of a word’s relation to language, a language’s expression to another, of wood in room returning to tree in soil, of teeth evoking bone memories — its 400 million year evolution from fish scales, of working together, and of a new story revealing itself. Instead of coming to terms with or tracing the complexity of a loss, the series proposes a different position in relation to the pain of losing.

Grounds of Coherence #1, but this is the language we met in

NR 2023
Tanaka to Jumonmono to Kaidan to Dai 5-kai Zenpen

Guest ghost storytellers tell ghost stories they associate with the objects, but this time, guests Yoma Yutaka and Yase Yasuhiro Yase also brought their own haunted objects for this special program.In the first part, Tanaka introduced an animal-shaped object called "bori" from the Banama tribe in Africa, and Yoma Yutaka, who is not usually associated with hauntings, brought his own hauntings, including a "eleven-faced thousand-armed Avalokitesvara/parko.

Tanaka to Jumonmono to Kaidan to Dai 5-kai Zenpen

NR 2023