2015 / digital / color / 30min.
　　
This is the 7th work in LA MATIÈRE DE MÉMOIRE, a series focusing on people who experienced the Pacific War we have been working on since 2009. In this installment we talk to ITANI Fumiko (89), a survivor of two air raids (the “bombing of Tokyo” and the “bombing raid on Yamanote”) that burned down and transformed Tokyo in 1945, killing over 100,000 people. Feeling a sense of approaching danger after the “bombing of Tokyo”, Itani had moved to Higashi Nakano in the Yamanote area, but on the night of the day she moved there this area was directly attacked in the “bombing raid on Yamanote”. By fleeing quickly she managed to escape with her life, but in one night she lost everything. The story of the seldom spoken of “bombing raid on Yamanote” strongly compels us to listen to the voices of the countless forgotten dead who sleep in the soil of Tokyo.（V.B.）
　

Visual Brains (KAZAMA Sei + OTSU Hatsune)

KAZAMA Sei and OTSU Hatsune formed Visual Brains and began to be active as visual artists when they were both working at a television production company called Teleforce. While creating multimedia art they also worked as directors on many projects in a variety of genres. Currently, she teaches at Tokyo Polytechnic University (OTSU). Recent written works include Gendai Eizou Geijyutsuron (KAZAMA, Shuppan Bunka Kenkyukai, 07).
　

Schedule

TOKYO Park tower：5/1 13:45 Program E、5/4 11:30 Program E
KYOTO：5/19 16:45 Program E
FUKUOKA：6/4 16:20 Program E
NAGOYA：6/25 16:30 Program E