TBA:19 FESTIVAL
Cinema Project is a collectively run, non-profit organization based in Portland, Oregon, that works to promote public awareness of avant-garde cinema from the past and present. For 16 years, Cinema Project has attempted to push boundaries with thoughtful and evocative curatorial selections and in doing so has featured artists, curators, and scholars from around the world with the intent to broaden public engagement with, and deepen critical understanding of, innovative experimental film and video art. The Cinema Project collective is also made up of people and they are Heather Lane, Mia Ferm, Michael McManus, and Melinda Kowalska.
Memento Stella is an original phrase I coined to remind me to "remember the stars" and "never forget that we too reside among the stars", as well as the title of a project I started from winter of 2016.
For several years I've traveled the world, screening my work. And throughout this dark, sad world, amid war and terrorism, countless lives lost to natural cataclysms caused by human-caused, and there hasn't been a single day that death hasn't been in my thoughts.
At the same time, I do realize that it is not only death that binds us. We are also born and raised and living on this little planet, among the stars. I pursue my work with the idea that if each day, we might be conscious of this truth for even a moment, then maybe perhaps somewhere deep in our hearts, we might find shared artistic expressions, keys to a place beyond the religions, politics, borders, languages, and personal desires which tear us apart.
Takashi Makino (b. 1978 ) is a Tokyo-based experimental filmmaker widely considered to be one of the most influential Japanese moving-image artists of his generation. After graduating from the cinema department at Nihon University College of Art, he spent time honing his skills in the London-based studio of the Quay Brothers before moving back to Japan. His unique working process usually involves capturing representational footage of humans, nature, and urban life in various formats and then transforming these images radically during the editing stage. Through a process of layering, superimposition and other formal manipulations, these concrete images blend together into pulsating visual fields of organic abstraction in his finished works.
Makino regularly presents installations, screenings, and audio-visual performances of his work internationally, having appeared in over 120 cities to date.
Co-Presented with Cinema Project
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Filmmaker, Cinematography, Editor : Takashi Makino Country : Japan, Hong Kong
Medium : DCP(4K VIDEO)
Aspect : 2.35:1 Cinemascope
Length : 60’Year : 2018
Produce : Empty Gallery
Technical Support : C1 Enterprise, Bart.lab Soundtrack : Reinier Van Houdt
http://www.reiniervanhoudt.nl/ Distribute : Takashi Makino & Empty Gallery