Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography)

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It is Tokyo, Ebisu, is held every year at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Ebisu Festival. This year's theme is "TRUE COLORS".

The well itself, and their claims, a person has been viewed as representing a feeling or, as an image of the traditional, the presence of color.

It seems the spirit of the theme about those colors, from the works of filmmakers around the world, once again, it's that, let's review.

The square of Ebisu Garden Place, was named after the Festival, called Xijing people, by the group of Japan, China and South Korea three Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Chen Xiao application, of Gimuhonsokku, and exhibit using the container.

Set in a virtual state, the Xijing country, I have parodied the institution of the state.

In this film festival, screenings and in the theater of video works, symposium, lecture's pay, but the exhibition is done using the first floor and basement 2 and 3 floor of the ground's that all free, and happy indeed.

Just a entered the venue of the third floor, there was red, like colorful bags, cloth, hardens.

Work called Pottari of Kimusuja Korean born. There seems to be a mean to Pottari, that, wrap in Korean, in Korea, and wrap the clothes in bed cover, or closed, and that move.

Next to the Pottari, Pottari is clogged like a mountain track, the track would continue to run the mountains, Cities on the Move - video work called 2727 KM Bottari Truck was flowing.

Not only South Korea, among Ethnic Clothing traditional around the world, crafts, things that uses a primary color bright colors blue and red, and yellow in many cases. I have turned and I think that many, its meaning.

Video work called sons of escalation Arthur Liu from Taiwan. In this exhibition, I, work that remains strong in the most heart.

Video work the author loses beloved daughter, were taken Holy Land Tibetan Buddhism, the state of the pilgrimage to Kailash mountain. Only minimal effect music flows, nothing but, video, indifferent, I'm reflecting the mountain road of Kailash mountain.

There is also a pure white snow-covered road, there is also a green earth, there is also a landscape that is desolate and rocky soil. Stitched Tibetan through unique, the clothing, the color of vivid is impressive, and beautiful.

It was taken from a low angle, the overwhelming landscape of the Kailash mountain, stop foot unintentionally, you've seen the full-length of approximately 15 minutes.

The Kola, in Tibetan Buddhism, refers to the pilgrimage. In going down the road of pilgrimage, what people would think.

Silent film at the end of Susan Hiller was born in the United States. Close to extinction or near extinction, already, work was screened without the video, the recording of the conversation of minority languages ​​around the world. The screen is black, only subtitles Japanese translation, flowing through the bottom of the screen.

The venue, the graph of the frequency of the conversation of such words are also on display. Sound and that the graph obtained by converting it, in a variety of media, thought-provoking to what you see, the existence of a thing called words.

Even so, word of how much, born in this world, so far, would have disappeared. If you do not know it, words are not heard only a mere sound.

At the entrance of the hall on the second floor, Yuichiro Tamura is, exhibit ridge-end tile, Katie King was produced in projects in Awashima of the Seto Inland Sea.

This stems from the fact that out from the work accident, Tamura found on Awashima, called radio-meter William Crookes, to investigate the psychic research of Crookes, he met the ghost of a woman named Katie King.

The idea of ghost women of the 19th century, that, show up in this world again and become a ridge-end tile of a small island in the Seto Inland Sea in the 21st century is interesting.

Was born in Pakistan, Shajia-Shikanda showcased video work of animation using the technique of miniature painting in India, the last post. You are visualizing the impact of colonization of India by the British.

India governance of the United Kingdom, such as research materials and photos, just in approach-European, so to speak, we are informed. However, when expressed in the technique of miniature painting tradition of India, it, ambitious works How can that, I wonder become.

In the basement, work organization called Arctic Perspective Initiative is impressive.

The two persons named Matthew Biedermann Marco Perihan becomes the center, the theme of the fusion of art and science, this organization is trying to share the culture and the people living in the Arctic Circle, the wisdom of life.

Video taken aerial photographs of the Arctic Circle, the state of life, and instrumentation equipment of various types was exhibited.

Instead of that quirky, like foreboding daily activities becomes the work as it is, the way of art in the future, it was the exhibit memorable.