Shobun BAILE

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Shobun BAILE

Participating Project	Research Residency Program
Activity Based	New York City
City / Place stayed	Tokyo
Period	2025.10 - 2025.11

Purpose of the residency

I'm doing research on spatial rupture through philosopher Ōhashi Ryōsuke's concept of kire-tsuzuki (cut-continuance)—looking at how struggles over space and borders create aesthetics that work across ecological and social breaks.
The project has two parts: contemporary temporary architectures that emerge from ecological and social pressures, and the history of Japanese radical filmmaking that documented spatial struggle. I'm particularly interested in collectives like Ogawa Pro and their Sanrizuka series, which filmed communities resisting spatial transformation. I’ll be exploring how both cinema and architecture mediate presence and exclusion during moments of crisis looking back into historical archives as well.
This research will be the backbone for an upcoming essay film as well as a short narrative film.

Plan during the residency

• Interview Ōhashi Ryōsuke in Kyoto on Kire-tsuzuki
• Research on transitional architectures at the National Archives of Modern Architecture
• Research at National Film Archive of Japan
• Field research in Tokyo, Narita Airport

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