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This is my final thesis project. I created info-graphic, motion piece. My objective is to make Japanese people to think about that everything happening here in Japan, isn't that normal. So I created this video from foreigner's point of view, rather than Japanese people's point of view. Both English and Japanese versions are available. By the way, please don't call me racist, because I am one of short, small eyes Japanese. 大学の卒業制作で制作した映像です。（日本語版） 日本で生活していると、当たり前すぎて気づかない「不思議な事実」を、海外で生活した経験も生かし、外国人の視点から統計とともに映像化しました。 笑いつつも、「なんか不思議だな」と考えてもらえれば幸いです。 日本語版と英語版を制作しました。
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400 self-portraits by Kimiko Yoshida, shot between 2001 and 2010, edited by Maison Europeenne de la Photographie (Paris, France). The artist's statement: Art is above all the experience of transformation. My Self-portraits, or what go by that name, are only the place and the formula of the mutation. The only raison d’être of art is to transform what art alone can transform. All that’s not me, that’s what interests me. To be there where I think I…
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**To all those affected by the earthquake and tsunami. You are in our thoughts and prayers. We wish for the safety of you all.** Japan is one of the most beautiful countries in the world. This is my Japan. This is one of the many reasons why I love Japan. I shot this in many locations around Japan in the summer of 2009. Some of the location include Tokyo, Matsuyama, Imabari, Nagano, Gifu, and Ishizushisan. I started this as a personal project to…
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In her naturally large, subtle and minimalist self-portraits, Kimiko Yoshida uses the Doran, the traditional Japanese make-up, which is in absolute opposition to its Western conception as it comes to veil and obliterate the face, dissimulates the personal traits and erase singularities, thus rendering a standardized abstract idea of femininity and womanhood: the generic woman, both archetypal and ambiguous.
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I produced this short documentary about the Traditional Japanese Dance Grandmaster, Yoshie Tachibana. The Heron and the Geisha will premier at the Rhode Island International Film Festival in August. Yoshie Tachibana is the head of the Tachibana School of Japanese Dance. The Heron and the Geisha offers a rare look into the world of traditional Japanese arts. In the documentary, we see a kabuki theater wigmaker's workshop, a kimono shop, and a the…
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