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MIREI: The Stone Observer (working title)

 

This is a work in progress documentary feature project currently looking for investment & distribution.

If you are interested in finding out more about the project please contact us via email in info page.

 

この作品は、制作中で投資と配給を探しているドキュメンタリー長編プロジェクトです。

この企画についてもっと知りたい場合は、情報ページのメールでお問い合わせください。

 

Synopsis:

 

Plants and flowers are reproduced by the wind blowing and by visiting insects who pollinate them.

It can be said that the Japanese Garden has evolved through cross pollination as well.

Shaped by traditional Japanese craftsmanship and mixed with the influences of foreign cultures,

they are an expression created by the coexistence and experience of the terrain and humankind.

Mirei Shigemori was a pioneer who rebirthed Japanese garden art.

He helped modernize Japanese Karesansui (stone) gardens, which had a decline in popularity

from the Taisho era to the Showa era, through incorporating contemporary art elements.

Shigemori was also a historian, architect, interior designer, poet, calligrapher, writer and landscape architect who practiced Japanese tea ceremony.

This documentary focuses on his art and also aims to look at the Japanese garden.

From a contemporary art perspective, told through the theme of stone, we will explore why the relationship

between stone and humans continues to resonate as an artistic expression.

By interviewing Mirei Shigemori's relatives, historians, artists, and scholars based on the archives,

I would like to create a piece that shows the synergistic effect of East and West that will hopefully educate

and elucidate the next generation and further inspire them.

 

日本人は自然との関係性をつかさどる儀式の長い歴史をもち、それらは芸術の中にも表現されてきました。

世界でも注目される日本の庭園文化は、未来へと進化を続け、永遠に生き続ける芸術であり、

20 世紀を代表する世界的アーティスト、イサム・ノグチ氏などにも大きな影響を与えたように、

さまざまな世界芸術としても生まれ変わっています。

このドキュメンタリー動画は『石』をテーマに、日本庭園(枯山水や石庭)に現代的芸術要素を加えモダン化させた

重森三玲氏:史学者、建築家、詩人、茶人、書家、作家、華道、作庭家に焦点をおき、日本美術、風土を現代からの視線で考え、

世界に発信することを目的とします。

室町時代の作とされる枯山水・龍安寺庭園にもみられるような、石と人間との関係性。そこにはなぜ芸術表現が求められてきたのか。

残されたアーカイブスを元に、芸術家、歴史家、学者、重森三玲氏の親族、へのインタビューで構成し、

人間と自然の関係性を芸術として表現することについて探ります。

video archives:

Old japanese highway

tokaido, shizuoka

papersky

 

videography by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 00:52

Old japanese highway

kawane trail, shizuoka

papersky

 

videography by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 01:00

Snuggly Fuzzy

visiting NIHON HOMESPUN

in northern japan

 

film by yasuyuki takagi &

kontakt press ltd.

duration: 10:47

Old japanese highway

chichibu pilgrimage, saitama

papersky

 

videography by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 01:11

Old japanese highway

kinisaiki peninsula, oita

papersky

 

videography by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 01:05

Old japanese highway

Iya kaido tokushima

papersky

 

videography by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 01:09

TCVB Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau

東京観光財団

 

Okutama Forest Therapy

 

directed by yasuyuki takagi

duration 4:58

TCVB Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau

東京観光財団

 

VR art

 

directed by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 5:21

Harajuku Quest Archives

 

directed  by yasuyuki takagi

duration 1:23

LA GRANDE DAME

yayoi kusama x veuve clicquot

 

directed by yasuyuki takagi

duration 00:30

The photographer of "The Map" CHIZU Kikuji Kawada

『地図』の写真家 川田喜久治

 

directed by Yasuyuki Takagi

duration: 16:34

料理男子 project by cookpad

 

directed by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 4:43 (in japanese only)

art biotop water garden by

Junya Ishigami

 

the obel award

the henrik frode obel foundation

 

directed by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 2:47

Jungjin Lee / photographer

video editorial 01

IMA vision / AMANA inc.

 

directed by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 4:41

officine universelle buly

daikanyama store

 

directed by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 1:00

 

officine universelle buly

beauty adventures: made in kiso the minebari combs

 

a film by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 9:23

team box league X hokto

case study 01

コンサルティング会社の事例動画

 

directed by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 6:11 (in japanese only)

"Hello Korea!"

US Olympics and Paralympics team

Pyeong Chang 2018

 

US Embassy of Seoul

 

directed by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 2:40

ramdane touhami : naoshima hall

for Wallpaper magazine

 

a film by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 2:52

#ThankYouKorea / JIN-HA LEE

US Embassy of Seoul

 

directed by yasuyuki takagi

duration : 1:42

Portrait of a Place: Arakicho

The fight for survival in one of Tokyo's vanishing geisha districts

NOWNESS

 

a film by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 7:18

how to think like a Tom Sachs

 

papayacchi presents:

a portrait of Tom Sachs

Tom Sachs is an artist / sculptor

based in New York City.

 

a film by Yasuyuki Takagi

duration: 5:18

tokyo travel series 1

神保町 jinbocho

 

world's largest concentration of used book shops.

jinboucho also has one of the best cheap eats in town.

 

directed by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 6:06

WIRED JAPAN + KREI

 

the art of listening LIVE!

Sigbjorn Apeland @ KREI salon Tokyo

 

shot & directed by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 4:10

大和川酒造

yamatogawa sake brewery

 

珠泡プロモーションビデオ

promotion video

 

directed by yasuyuki takagi

duration: 3:05

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