Born in Kyoto in 1987. Graduated the master’s program (Image Arts) at the Nihon University Graduate School of Art in 2012. Member of Tokyo Eizo Brig. Studies and creates original works on the themes of diary film and animation.
a film by Nomura Kenta
This was the first work I shot using stop-motion photography on 8mm film. I was conscious of not wanting to create any predictable movement between each frame.
This work was a frame-by-frame transfer between a film shot between January and May 2012 and a film shot by the artist's grandfather between April and November 1959. The 8mm film was telecinated frame by frame, with even the perforations visible. By switching between the two at high speed, the difference between the two film formats, Regular 8 and Super 8, becomes apparent.
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Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…