Yoshiki Nishimura
Japan
2014 | 0:05:32

This film is a reality-based moving image. The passing clouds in the sky were taken by a video camera and transformed into graphics. They are almost as real as you see the clouds in the sky. It is just they are looked through different set of eyes. "Daily situations were expressed in an abstract way from another viewpoint." My aesthetic taste is not involved much there. Technically, "displacement-mapping" was applied to convert the clouds images into a bumpy surface in cyberspace. Following their intensity of contrast, such as brighter parts are higher and darker parts are lower, consequently topographical patterns happened to appear.

Kieko Ikehata
Japan
2014 | 0/12:45

This work is made from mother-daughter collaboration beyond the time. It is “Autofiction”, a narrative poem based on my family’s home videos. My mother likes to take videos. Those videos show my maternal grandmother and me in my childhood. I take videos same place that I was taken by her, when I grew up. "The place" that my mother took in old days, and "the place" I took today. When those two videos were piled up, I noticed that there were various deaths. The growth of the child, the reconstruction of the house, a trifling change of the neighboring scenery. These are “death”. In a meaning that the form that we loved is lost. Mother and I may hold a funeral for such a “death” by taking videos. Mother of the mourning dress having a camera mourns over death from the past to the present. I who take mother to a video have a foreboding by death of future mother. The home movie is dead. The word "The Embankment" in the title indicates relationship between mother and daughter. They stand on each side of the embankment. However, they became an accomplice. Just like to build an embankment, they build something of the same one from each side in their family.

Hiroya Sakurai
Japan
0:05:35

This work is a ballet using a sound and the movement of waterweeds and water. With the waterway as the theater, I filmed the choreography of waterweeds that flows in the water. In the man-made waterways of rice paddies, the water in nature must follow artificial rules. In that way, nature is made abstract, giving rise to a new form of beauty distinct from the natural state. The theme of this work is the liveliness of the water as it follows the man-made course.

Mari Fukui
Japan
2014 | 0:12:15

The external world continues being valid, and we exist in that. The energy to happen to our heart is like the wave of the outside world. It seems to be whisper it calmly. It seems to looks frightening.

Kei Chikaura
Japan
2014 | 0:15:00

Risaki is coming back home to her wintery countryside, Yamagata which is 400 km away from Tokyo. There is seemingly unchanging snowy life of her beloved family and home village—snow shoveling, making pickles, bridges over a big river covered with snow, and kaki fruits left unharvested on its tree.