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WINTER SIGHT (FUYU NO KOKEI)

6 1/2 minutes

8mm

1970, Nagoya, Japan

Shown at Home Movie Day: Nagoya, Japan
Source: Yuriko Kurimoto
Introductory Essay by Yuriko Kurimoto.
Music by Donald Sosin

Synopsis:

A look at a group of young Japanese friends in 1970, followed by a trip to a traditional cemetery.

Historical Background:

I'm an installation artist based in Nagoya. I try to find old attractive buildings and use them in my work. The venue for Home Movie Day Nagoya in 2005, Shumoku-kan, was one the houses I worked on.

This film was shot when I was an art student at the local college in the late 70s, and the girl on the bed is myself. When I heard of the Home Movie Day event, I dug some 8mm films out from the attic, but I had no memory whatsoever of what those films were like. In those days, I was listening to jazz with my friends and just having fun making films in black and white.

--Yuriko Kurimoto