With an eye to sussing out the concept of "the end” and its possible readings, Japanese artist Shigeo Arikawa sets his short film in an appealing, closed microworld that intensifies our perception of the nature and details of objects and their ephemerality.
Vivid images of a microworld, whose equivalents surround each of us, are appealing in themselves; in this film they coalesce around the motif of "the end.” Rousing the senses, the movie touches on the nature and transience of diverse objects, which here take on various forms. In the eyes of the filmmaker, "the end” is a semantic construction that we name and, in the present, attach to something that has already in fact ended. In his precisely constructed film, he achieves unobtrusive yet exceptionally powerful images that lodge themselves in the mind.
11 min / Color, DCP
Director Shigeo Arikawa
/ Screenplay Shigeo Arikawa
/ Dir. of Photography Shigeo Arikawa
/ Music Shigeo Arikawa
/ Editor Shigeo Arikawa
/ Producer Shigeo Arikawa
/ Production Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
/ Contact Shigeo Arikawa
Shigeo Arikawa (b. 1982, Tokyo) is an artist and filmmaker based in his hometown. In his work he starts from the media of photography and video to investigate the limits of sensory perception. His films have screened around the world, and he has also shown his pieces at the Venice Biennale. In 2014 he took on a residency at Amsterdam’s Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. Selected filmography: Moss of Time (2006), Her Ironical Me (2008), and G I (2011).
Shigeo Arikawa
, 1018 GW, Amsterdam
Netherlands
E-mail: [email protected]
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