Jul.12.2007
Image Forum screens Junko Takahashi’s video work as its masterpiece selection
A video by Junko Takahashi, an excellence award winner 1993 (the 5th competition), will be screened at “Anihakaranya (Surprising)-A selection of documentary masterpieces made after the millennium” held at Image Forum, Shibuya, Tokyo. We hope to see you all there.
Comments of the artist:
This screening session features individual documentaries made after 2001. The general use of non-linear editing since that year activated the spread of image production, and made it possible for individuals to make videos. And, around that time, ways of communication became more varied in different social situations. Consequently, all sorts of social issues have come up. Because ways of communicating are changing, theaters show documentaries that are trying new approaches to bring about catalysts that connect oneself to others through an opening up the self (even if fictitious). The program has four parts, and my work is in Program D.
My works “Tokyo Mid 1” and “Tokyo Mid 2” are screened:
I produced this series to grasp symbolically the existence of a private person and the society surrounding us. The work was shot at Marunouchi and Otemachi in Tokyo, areas that are symbolic of central Tokyo. I have chosen these areas because they symbolize situations surrounding us, and give us an image of a contemporary city in Japan.
What is common to both works is that they were both shot during when the sunlight changes towards evening. A female model stays in the same posture as time passes. It seems to conjure up an image of the existence of an individual and things that are flowing past a person. And, she keeps on standing in the street as part of the landscape of city where people and things come and go.
This series is still under production, and to be shown at a project exhibition at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2008.
| Date | : Friday, July 13 – Monday and holiday, July 16, 2007 |
| Venue | : Image Forum 2-10-2 Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0002 (Walk 8 min. from JR Shibuya station, or walk 10 min. from Omotesando station on Tokyo Metro) |
| TEL | : 03- 5766-0114 |
| Open hours | : http://www.imageforum.co.jp/cinematheque/index.html |
| Admission | : ¥700 on the day, ¥500 for members |
