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My Grandma's Apple Pie
film 21min3sec 2016 film installation at AKIBATAMABI21 「日常のフィクション」展、AKIBATAMABI21にて |
祖母のアップルパイはアメリカの味がした。
祖母は戦後まもなく、横田基地内で米軍家族のベビーシッターとして働いていた。彼女が基地で習ったアップルパイは見た目も味も少し風変わりで、遠い異国の味がした。今はもう以前ほど料理をしなくなった祖母に、アップルパイの作り方を聞いた。あの味を再現し、 彼女がかつてお世話をしていた男の子「Dave」に食べてもらうためにー。映像は祖母へのインタビューから始まり、当時の写真に写っている「Dave」とのインターネット上の自作自演のコミュニケーションをもとにストーリーが展開される。現実とフィクションの境界を行き来しながら、味覚という保存不可能な記憶について探求する。 My Grandma's apple pie tasted of America for me. This film begins with the interview with my grandmother about the memory of the time when she worked for Yokota Air Force, US military base in Tokyo as a babysitter after World War Ⅱ. She often made apple pie for her family as well as the children at her work place - one of the boys in her old photograph is called Dave. The story in the film is developed with a fictional setting; 1.if Dave is still arive and it is possible to communicate him through SNS, 2.would it possible to meet him? 3.would he remember the taste of my grandmaﾕs apple pie? To verify these questions, I wrote the story and enacted it by myself to message Dave online and to get the message back like a solitary play. I created a fictional narrative about the life of Dave using the actual life story of the actor of Dave who is an American man who came to Japan with the US military during the Vietnam War. What I wanted to experiment with this film is to create the confusion for the audience between fiction and reality and to show the fine line between fact and imagination. |
installation at AKIBATAMABI21, 2016
