Haruka Komori
Birth : 1989-01-01, Shizuoka, Japan
History
Born in 1989 in Shizuoka, Japan. Graduated with graduate degree from the Department of Intermedia Art, Tokyo University of the Arts. Completed the elementary course of study in Fiction at the Film School of Tokyo. Komori’s work as a volunteer in east Japan after the Great East Japan Earthquake led her to start up artistic activities with artist/ writer Seo Natsumi. In 2012, Komori moved her base of activity to Rikuzentakata in Iwate, where she visually records the people’s stories, lives, and local scenery. She moved to Sendai in 2015. She is now a member of the general incorporated association NOOK. Her main works include Nami no Shita, Tsuchi no Ue (2014, a collaboration with Seo Natsumi), Iki no Ato (2016), and Sora ni Kiku (2018).
Editor
After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, Komori Haruka and Seo Natsumi chose to live and film in Rikuzentakata. This work is a visual record of four people who applied for a workshop Komori and Seo devised, showing them visiting the town and getting to know its people and landscape. The opportunity to hear personal experiences of the disaster decreases with time, but this film provides a bridge to new encounters and communication, in addition to including a story written by Seo entitled “Double Layered Town.”
Cinematography
After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, Komori Haruka and Seo Natsumi chose to live and film in Rikuzentakata. This work is a visual record of four people who applied for a workshop Komori and Seo devised, showing them visiting the town and getting to know its people and landscape. The opportunity to hear personal experiences of the disaster decreases with time, but this film provides a bridge to new encounters and communication, in addition to including a story written by Seo entitled “Double Layered Town.”
Director
After the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011, Komori Haruka and Seo Natsumi chose to live and film in Rikuzentakata. This work is a visual record of four people who applied for a workshop Komori and Seo devised, showing them visiting the town and getting to know its people and landscape. The opportunity to hear personal experiences of the disaster decreases with time, but this film provides a bridge to new encounters and communication, in addition to including a story written by Seo entitled “Double Layered Town.”
Editor
The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami destroyed large parts of the small town of Rikuzentakata. Here, Hiromi ABE hosts a radio show in which she reports on local events and interviews the residents. She focuses not only on the time after the disaster and the ongoing rebuilding of the community, but also on recording personal stories.
Cinematography
The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami destroyed large parts of the small town of Rikuzentakata. Here, Hiromi ABE hosts a radio show in which she reports on local events and interviews the residents. She focuses not only on the time after the disaster and the ongoing rebuilding of the community, but also on recording personal stories.
Director
The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami destroyed large parts of the small town of Rikuzentakata. Here, Hiromi ABE hosts a radio show in which she reports on local events and interviews the residents. She focuses not only on the time after the disaster and the ongoing rebuilding of the community, but also on recording personal stories.
Director
Documentary about Sato Teiichi's daily life spent doing everything by hand at his seed shop in Rikuzentakada City, which was devastated by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Filmmaker Komori Haruka handles directing, camera and editing in her feature film directorial debut. Sato's home-cum-shop were swept away by the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. He runs the Sato Seed Shop where he makes everything on his own, including the construction of the prefab building, digging of the well, and creation of the signage, and he also writes a diary using self-taught English about his experiences during the disaster.
Editor
The work is constituted from video footage of scenery and encounters with locals in the coastal city of Rikuzentakata, which was devastated by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The artists spent three years and eight months documenting the region, subsequently constructing their footage to create a narrative.
Cinematography
The work is constituted from video footage of scenery and encounters with locals in the coastal city of Rikuzentakata, which was devastated by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The artists spent three years and eight months documenting the region, subsequently constructing their footage to create a narrative.
Director
The work is constituted from video footage of scenery and encounters with locals in the coastal city of Rikuzentakata, which was devastated by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The artists spent three years and eight months documenting the region, subsequently constructing their footage to create a narrative.
Editor
Based on the play "Our Town" (written by Thornton Wilder), the daily life of a girl living in a rural town and the members of the theater company who are practicing the stage of Act 3 of "Our Town" are drawn alternately. Is done. The drama's words about the world in which the dead live overlap with the everyday life of a rural town and are projected onto the actors themselves. It is a work completed in the process with the actors.
Cinematography
Based on the play "Our Town" (written by Thornton Wilder), the daily life of a girl living in a rural town and the members of the theater company who are practicing the stage of Act 3 of "Our Town" are drawn alternately. Is done. The drama's words about the world in which the dead live overlap with the everyday life of a rural town and are projected onto the actors themselves. It is a work completed in the process with the actors.
Writer
Based on the play "Our Town" (written by Thornton Wilder), the daily life of a girl living in a rural town and the members of the theater company who are practicing the stage of Act 3 of "Our Town" are drawn alternately. Is done. The drama's words about the world in which the dead live overlap with the everyday life of a rural town and are projected onto the actors themselves. It is a work completed in the process with the actors.
Director
Based on the play "Our Town" (written by Thornton Wilder), the daily life of a girl living in a rural town and the members of the theater company who are practicing the stage of Act 3 of "Our Town" are drawn alternately. Is done. The drama's words about the world in which the dead live overlap with the everyday life of a rural town and are projected onto the actors themselves. It is a work completed in the process with the actors.
