In the midst of the frenzy night a man finds himself lost in the crevasse of time. It was not the grotesque beings nor the monsters, but it was he who “was here, but wasn't here”. He was the phantom. Buried under memories full of inhibition and promises that never kept – words washed up on the shore – time keeps him at a distance from the “place”. And he hears poems coming on the waves from the other side rhyming and lapping against the shore. A 360° scope video Installation commissioned by Nagano Art Museum.
Featuring stirring imagery cycling through abstraction and quivering permanence, Onohana’s (Ouch, Chou Chou and such a good place to die, JC 2016) characteristically stunning animation was produced in collaboration with visitors to her past exhibitions in Shinjuku, Tokyo and Morioka, Tohoku, tracing her original illustrations. -JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film
The two of them, all alone at home. All alone with her father's corpse. Memories, ideals, and reality all sink beneath the muck. Everyone is alone. Everyone is in solitude.
I want to leave home,” a pet fish told a boy one day. The boy reluctantly takes the fish out to the sea to ‘keep his promise,’ as it says. Their recollections on the way became slightly discrepant.
