OBAKE

Moving into an old house in the rural countryside, videographer Komai converses with its former owner Umemoto, drawing from personal memories to discuss histories, cartographies and the passage of time, reflecting upon the changing tides of tradition and progress within generational spans of the town’s history.

A great adventure in the comfort of a room thanks to a microscope. The infinite universe that expands if you look at a medaka, a leaf, an udon and a stone. Before you know it, you are lost in the small world around you. A big world. This work is a diary of observation from the sowing of the Fusenkazura seed to the withering away.

Three young men living in the city with a love for killifish head to a mountain in Nara to float a small boat they found down a river. Experience the pleasure of a laid-back drive set to relaxing music expanding into an anthem of life and the cosmos.