Film installations
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Tokyo(sur)face – 10 sec. thinking about the future, film still

10 sec. thinking about the future

Tokyo [sur]face

Film-loop, 16mm, colour, 4:26 minutes, mute, 1998

At the beginning of 1998, we asked young people in Harajuku, Tokyo to look into the lens of a 16 mm Bolex film camera and think about the future for 10 seconds. Inspired by the “thought photography“ in the early times of photography, as researchers like Marie Curie found out about the phenomena to visualize radiation.


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"10 seconds thinking about the future" Multiscreen video installation for Moere Snowscape, Sapporo 2009 in collaboration with Shinichiro Akasaka, architect, Sapporo
"10 seconds thinking about the future" Multiscreen video installation for Moere Snowscape, Sapporo 2009 in collaboration with Shinichiro Akasaka, architect, Sapporo
"10 seconds thinking about the future" Multiscreen video installation for Moere Snowscape, Sapporo 2009 in collaboration with Shinichiro Akasaka, architect, Sapporo
"10 seconds thinking about the future" Multiscreen video installation for Moere Snowscape, Sapporo 2009 in collaboration with Shinichiro Akasaka, architect, Sapporo
"10 seconds thinking about the future" Multiscreen video installation for Moere Snowscape, Sapporo 2009 in collaboration with Shinichiro Akasaka, architect, Sapporo

About Film Installation
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For the Snowscape Moere, a winter art exhibition at the Moerenuma Park in Sapporo, we realised a multiscreen video installation in collaboration with the architect Shinichiro Akasaka. On a number of tents, made of semitransparent snow-resistant cloth, that correspond with the glass pyramid of Isamu Noguchi in a temporary skyline, we projected 5 videos with portraits of people of different european and japanese cities, that think about the future for 10 seconds. It is an elusive image, just like a snowflake.

 

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