Films
by Okada Atsushi
Since 2011, Okada has been filming wild horses inhabiting Yururi Island off the Nemuro Peninsula in Hokkaido, Japan.
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The scene is set in a meadow with horses like an impressionist painting, and the voice of the sea breeze plays a delicate melody akin to a wind instrument. That is all left of the abandoned island of Yururi. Or, if I dare to add to that, perhaps it is the traces of the islanders’ memories. These things are quietly overlapping each other, and thus time is flowing on Yururi, a lost island like no other. The images, music, and several sonnets (14 lines of poetry) here represent this unique time flow. Now, let’s go to the water path leading to the lost island. Light, wind, and the silent voice guide you.
Okada Atsushi / Photographer
Born 1979 in Hokkaido, Japan. Graduated from the Department of Photography, Faculty of Art, Osaka University of Arts in 2003, and received his doctorate (Art) from the Graduate School of Arts, Tokyo Polytechnic University in 2008. In the same year, he won the Kimura Ihei Award, also known as the “Akutagawa Prize of the photography world.” He has also won the Hokkaido Cultural Encouragement Award, the Higashikawa Awards Special Photographer Award, and the Fuji Photo Salon New Face Award. His published works include “I am” (AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2007), “ataraxia” (Seigensha Art Publishing, 2010), “THE WORLD” (AKAAKA Art Publishing, 2012), “MOTHER” (Hakurosha, 2014) and “Yasuda Shota Photo Collection: LIFE IS” (Magazine House, 2020). His works are in the public collections of the Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, the Kawasaki City Museum and the Higashikawa Bunka Gallery. He has been photographing Yururi Island since 2011.
haruka nakamura / Composer
Born in Aomori Prefecture. He has released many original albums as a solo artist and in various units. Performed at many important cultural properties including Cathedral of St. Mary the Divine in Tokyo, World Peace Memorial Cathedral in Hiroshima and Nosaki Tenshudo in Nosaki Island. In recent years, he has composed music for the opening of Sugimoto Hiroshi’s “Enoura Weather Station,” the National Art Center, Tokyo’s “Cartier: Crystals of Time” and Ando Tadao’s “Message to the Next Generation.” He has collaborated with many artists including Nujabes. He has also composed music for NHK dramas “Hikikomori Sensei” and “The Golden Sea,” as well as for many dramas, documentaries, CMs including Calorie Mate, Pocari Sweat, and AC Public Advertising.
Hoshino Tomoyuki / Editor, Writer
Born 1963 in Kanagawa Prefecture. Graduated from the Department of Japanese Language and Literature, Faculty of Education, Waseda University. Worked on the launch of the monthly magazine “Tokyo Calendar” and was editor-in-chief from 2009 to 2010. From 2009 to 2014, he was the creative director of JR East’s monthly membership magazine “Otona no Kyujitsu (Holiday for Seniors) Club [Middle].” In 2019, he opened a hotel “TOURIST HOME & LIBRARY Planet Blue News Service” in Bifuka Town, Hokkaido. He is the author of a short story collection, “Moon Light River Fish Laboratory” (PIA Corporation, 2011), a non-fiction, “The Work and Opinions of Ikegai Tomoko, Spatial Director” (Access Publishing, 2012) and an article, “The Journey of Jack London and Movement in ‘A Wild Sheep Chase’” in “Movement in Murakami Haruki” (Tamkang University Publishing Center, 2020).