Mirror Stone
HD - 35'
A mirror-stone is not a mere mirror, its reflection isn't solely our reversed image but has something more to reveal. The body we see separate from us is melt with the veins of the stone, its textures are layers of time and the wrinkles of the nature appear on our own face.
In the moment we reflect on the mirror-stone we are looking into ourselves but something else expand our perception. While we are knowing we are known,…
Mirror Stone
HD - 35'
A mirror-stone is not a mere mirror, its reflection isn't solely our reversed image but has something more to reveal. The body we see separate from us is melt with the veins of the stone, its textures are layers of time and the wrinkles of the nature appear on our own face.
In the moment we reflect on the mirror-stone we are looking into ourselves but something else expand our perception. While we are knowing we are known,…
Uka (浮島)
HD 6'49"
In the japanese islands Kannon is worshipped as Guanyin in the famous Putuo of China. The place that host the god is the most beautiful in every island and the only unchanged for about the last 500 years.
Suō-Ōshima (周防大島)
HD 6'05"
A flag is part of the landscape not only its representation. The mandarin orange street goes up to the hill where Miyamoto Tsuneichi used to hike to contemplate the embrace of the horizon. The movements on an island are never linear. One can ascend a mountain (if there is any) or circumnavigate the cost, the straight horizontal trajectories are rare on small islands. The essential shape of movements is the circle and its…
Koh Lanta (เกาะลันตา)
3'48"
When daylight fall, a different light arise in the island. Shining from inside the houses become like lamps in the night.
Koh Lanta 2006
online resources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko_Lanta_District
http://vimeo.com/2329645
http://www.lantainfo.com/about_ko_lanta_people.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_land
Mishima (見島)
HD 8'28"
The history of an island written in its shape, the costline drew by the sea picture a cow between the two mainlands. Main entrances are in the chest and the back where the ports are located and under the front foot a protected space, the sacred place of Kannon (Guan Yin). The sound of the bell and wooden fish accompany the waves, going back and forth to a distant connected place, while consuming a meal with the gods or flying…
Hon jima (本島)
HD 9'08"
AOKI: Every year when I hike the mountain around autumn season I collect some mattake mushrooms.
On the way back I go to visit the old women of the village. I give them one mushroom each and you should see
how happy they are! Just by watching their happy faces my heart is full of joy.
I always go to the mountain when autumn arrives to get Mattake and bring it to the ladies.
A new perspective: from being to crossing
40 minutes…
Megi (女木島)
HD 2'27"
Only a strip of sea divide the small village from the big city, facing each other like a Davide and Golia or Momotaro and the demons.
As an effect of this vicinity the island has become a place of passage or a short entertaining disney like visit.
The legendary Onigashima is turning to a Non-lieu and the terrible ogres into a cartoon-like statue.
Megijima 2010
online resources:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonluogo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momotarō
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onigashima
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takamatsu,_Kagawa
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