Think about the Japan of the future in the movie
「ネット選挙活動」が初めて解禁される7月の参院選選挙に向け、候補者も有権者も戸惑う2013年梅雨の東京。ツイッターやフェイスブックなどのSNS活用の解禁で、今回の選挙の争点となる憲法改正問題、原発問題、景気の問題などの話題も、きっと白熱した議論が巻き起こるに違いない。いずれもこれからの日本のあり方を決める重要な問題で、参院選の結果次第では日本の未来が大きく変わっていくことが予想される。 今回のカルチャー×シブヤでは、重大な節目を迎える2013年の日本の政治模様に合わせ、希望ある「未来」へのヒントとなるかもしれない映画3本をピックアップ。 無所属で反原発を訴え市議選を戦う男、世界共通のごみ問題にアートの力で挑む男、老人作家が一人の少年に見た「光」?? 様々なフィールドで思い思いの未来を夢見る男たちの姿を、日本の希望ある行く末を探すヒントにしてみては？
Election 2
Vik Muniz: The Miracle of Garbage Art
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- title
- Election 2
- Screening location
- Theatre Image Forum
- Screening period
- July 6, 2013 ~
- Screen time
- More information about the screening schedule to theater
- directed by
- Kazuhiro Soda
- Starring out
- Kazuhiko Yamauchi and others
Theater Image Forum will be showing "Campaign 2" from July 6th, a documentary that follows "Yama-san," who ran in the unified local elections immediately after the earthquake disaster under the slogan "anti-nuclear power." The director is Kazuhiro Soda. In 2007, "Campaign" was released in theaters, capturing Yama-san running in a city council by-election. At the time, Yama-san was an LDP-endorsed candidate, and was first elected thanks to the party's strong organizational power and thorough street-to-door campaigning. In April 2011, he ran in the unified local elections, which were in doubt due to the earthquake disaster, as a completely independent, without any organization, money, or signboard. The camera captures the mechanical daily life of people who fear radiation, the familiar scene of an election that continues as usual with no policy debate despite the country's crisis, and "us" who choose a representative without any interest in such politics. The image of Japanese democracy is inevitably highlighted from the election campaign in which Yama-san faces it unarmed.
It's an election year in Japan, with the House of Councillors election coming up in July. Where on earth are we Japanese heading?
Vik Muniz: The Miracle of Garbage Art
- title
- Vik Muniz: The Miracle of Garbage Art
- Screening location
- Euro Space
- Screening period
- July 20, 2013 ~
- Screen time
- More information about the screening schedule to theater
- directed by
- Lucy Walker
- Starring out
- Vik Muniz and others
Eurospace will be showing "Vik Muniz: The Miracle of Garbage Art," a documentary film that follows a Brazilian contemporary artist at the world's largest waste disposal site, from July 20th. The film takes place in Jardim Gramacho, a garbage dump located north of Rio de Janeiro (closed in 2012). There is a community of people who make a living by scavenging for recyclable waste from the city, with an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 people living at the dump and 15,000 earning income from jobs related to waste collection. Brazilian-born Vik Muniz is a contemporary artist who creates works using materials that are close at hand and photographs them as artworks. His works, which use soil, diamonds, sugar, chocolate syrup, and other materials to create figures, have been exhibited around the world, and he is currently based in New York.
This project creates giant portraits using junk collected from the dump to depict the people who make a living there. The images are nothing more than a collection of junk, such as old tires, buckets, and tubes, but when viewed from a different angle, they capture the people who live there, and exude a beauty reminiscent of religious paintings.
The ever-increasing waste problem is a social issue facing the world, including Japan. If we change our perspective, will we see a different future?
Oro
Starting from July 6th, Uplink will be screening "Oro," a documentary film by a veteran Japanese director following the story of Oro, a boy who fled Tibet across the Himalayas at the age of six. Released in theaters last year, the film attracted attention for its simple, straightforward portrayal of a boy who dreams of a future with Tibet on his shoulders. This screening is part of a special program in memory of the late Iwasa Toshiya, a filmmaker who asked Oro to "make a film together," and who passed away in May. Iwasa started out as part of Iwanami Productions' collaborative group, "Ao no Kai," and went on to work in avant-garde films and television before arriving in his beloved Tibet. At the end of the film, Oro resolves, "But even so, I will keep walking."
The current situation in Tibet is especially sad compared to any other era or society. However, the determination that Oro reaches in overcoming his sadness is something that is common to all the boys on earth who live in the difficult times of the 21st century. And the elderly always entrust the future to the young.
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