update: 2024.4.23
Participating Project | Local Creator Residency Program |
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Activity Based | Kanagawa |
City / Place stayed | Tokyo |
Period | 2024.5 - 2024.7 |
Tetsuya Yamashita, who shot former Prime Minister Abe, Tomohiro Kato, who committed the Akihabara massacre, and Boy A, who called himself as Sakakibara Seito. They were all born around 1983, and have one thing in common: they were part of the generation known as "Snapping 17-year-olds”. In this program, I plan to create a video work in which I, who was also born in 1983 and went abroad from being in social withdrawal as a youth, go on a journey to find another "me" living a completely different life in Japan.
By transcending the boundaries between documentary and fiction, I intend to approach the theme of "division" from various angles, such as the division within the mind, the division between self and others, the division between generations, and the division of Japanese society itself. At the same time, I also intend to portray the fundamental power of human beings to overcome these barriers.