Junko

Details from a portrait of Kinbakushi Akira Naka, through the otherness of image and speech; broken up memory, fragmented time, reminiscences of places, moments, faces and bodies, during a back-and-forth between the recollections of a child and the aspirations of a man in his fifties...

Sightings of Brooklyn-based artist Loren Connors. To graze against the pulsations of time, to feel matter, to linger on the imperceptible frailty of gesture...

On June 15, 1960, Michiko Kanba, a student member of Zengakuren, died during a demonstration against the Anpo Treaty at the National Diet, following a clash with riot police. She was 22 years old.

Examining both body- and mirror image, Vincent Guilbert’s Super8 work Of Her Kingdom is a meditative filmic puzzle about memories, fleeting moments and contradictions, in which a solitary woman is seen listening to an LP, drying her hair and applying eyeliner while her actions are narrated with existential Zen-like mantras.

December 21, 2015. The image of a fox was captured by a camera inside the unit 2 building at Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant... A film-essay about contemporary Japan in the aftermath of March 2011 earthquake.

An attempted interpretation in Super 8 of a 19th century woodblock print book, printed by Japanese artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, from his series "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon" (1885-1892)

An animal, which appears to be a fox, was seen outside the containment of the Fukushima nuclear power plant’s No. 2 reactor, where radiation levels can reach more than 10 sieverts per hour. It appeared in front of surveillance cameras on the morning of December 21, 2015, and spent 7 to 8 minutes there before disappearing.

Indolence...