Unforgettable Landscape (ROWAN TREE)
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film 11min
2014 - 2015 award: CCW Artist Moving Image Fund link>>> screening at South London Gallery, 21/5/2014 CCW Artist Moving Image Fund 受賞 第１９回文化庁メディア芸術祭審査委員会推薦作品 群馬青年ビエンナーレ2017 奨励賞 |
祖母の忘れられない風景 - ナナカマドの樹。北海道に街路樹として見られるこの樹は、アイヌの人々、そしてスコットランドに多く親しまれる樹であった。ナナカマドの樹を見た事がなかった私は、この樹を探す旅をすることにした。
「ナナカマドの樹を知っていますか？」 インタビューはロンドンからスコットランドのハイランド地方まで及んだ。祖母の思い出話から出発したこの旅は、人々の記憶を辿り様々なストーリーへと繋がる。映像は、ゲール語で書かれた詩の一節「ナナカマドはLoch Mai (マイ湖）に立っていた」を頼りに、作者が作ったナナカマドのオブジェクトを置くというところで終わる。物語は記憶とフィクションの間を行き来し、まるでFamily treeのように広がった。 This is a film about my journey to look for a rowan tree - which is my grandmotherﾕs unforgettable landscape. It was filmed in Hokkaido, London and Scotland from 2011 to 2014. Through the journey, I discovered that rowan trees have a long history in Hokkaido, North Japan, surrounded by myths and superstitions. I was surprised to find that the tree also held great significance in Scotland, even to this day people are wary to cut down one of these trees in fear of disturbing the supernatural. I found the personal narrative of my grandmother could be connected to other people's memory that I meet on my journey through several different countries. This manifested through the interviews, and the final destination to follow a story to a lake called Loch Mai in Northern Scotland - which is found in one of the ancient Gaelic poem’s about the rowan tree. It was as if the initial memory took me on the journey. Coming and going between fiction and reality, the story developed like a form of family tree. |
installation view at Chelsea College of Arts, 2014
rowan tree, wire, plaster, beads, 2014
