TKY 2015

Short Film Making in Tokyo!

This project is about making a short-flim on the city of Tokyo and exploring its people and its culture.
What kind of memories of Tokyo are there? How are these fade, forgotten and lost? How are these memories accumulate?

The film will be 6 stories about one "place," directed by 6 up-and-coming young filmmakers/artists. Screenings, events, and research will be done to create an original piece that captures the city's hidden scents and atmosphere, unexplainable with words.

From Tokyo's "old-town" section to the central Yamanote area, from skyscrapers to residential houses.... How are memories born, compiled, created, and expressed in our city of Tokyo which has many facets depending on the time and place? The young emerging filmmakers/artists will tell the story that begins in the city and spreads through its history; it may be fictional but will capture the continuous change in this city we live in.

■with artists;

Akira Ikeda, Hajime Izuki, Tatsuo Kobayashi, Yusuke Shibata, Shumpei Shimizu, Daisuke Shimote

Profile of the directors/artists

＊＊＊Listen to the sounds of a Public Bath House!

TKY2015 in OGU Yu-Land (Arakawa)

Date: April 29th, Wed. 14:30-18:00 *Doors open at 14:00

Venue: OGU Yu-Land (5-27-5 Higashiogu Arakawa-ku Tokyo)

Access: 10 min. walk from Toei streetcar (toden) Arakawa Line, Kumanomae

13 min. walk from JR Yamanote Line, Tabata station (North Exit)

Fee: Adult 500yen, Children 300yen (including bath entrance fee)

*Children under 12 years old will need an accompanying parent or guardian.

Explore the sounds of a public bath house!

Filmmaker Daisuke Shimote, who will shoot a film in a public bath house in Arakawa as part of his Tokyo short-film project for “TKY2015”, will hold a workshop to discover the sounds in a public bath house!

Try listening to the sounds as if you are the bath-keeper (banto-san) or try listening through the speakers and hear what happens; if you listen carefully, you will hear the different layers, where various water and tub sounds mix and “spice up” the overall sound.

You are free to enter at any time during workshop hours. Please also enjoy taking a bath at this traditional bath house (optional).

We will have talk sessions with special guests as well. Details will be posted on Facebook and HP.

With: Daisuke Shimote (Filmmaker), Chinatsu Yokomizo (Sound Engineer), Tadashi Kako (OGU Yu-Land), and more…

*You do not have to take a bath - it is optional.

*Workshop and talk session will be held in the Tatami lobby space.

*You can bring beer, juice etc., to drink in the Tatami lobby space.

*If you take a bath, please bring your own towel and toiletrees, or buy/rental at OGU Yu-Land.

*If you take a bath, please read public bath manners from the following link:

http://1010.or.jp/zenyoku/foreigner.php

Organized by：Happy Tent

Grant: Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)

Venue Support：OGU Yu-Land

Thanks to：Tadashi Kako (OGU Yu-Land), Naofumi Kurita（OKUNOTE), Hideo Miura (Sento Social Design Festival), Hideko Saito（OGU MAG）

Email: happytentjapan[at]gmail.com

Facebook page：https://www.facebook.com/HappyTentJapan

***Kick Off Talk***

January 17th, Sat.

As the kick of event of this filmmaking project, we will discuss about the filmmaking situation in Japan and also alternative way of it.

The talk will be conducted in Japanese, no translation.

We hope to translate & upload in English shortly.

Modelator: Yoshi Yatabe (Program director, Tokyo International Film Festival)

Artists: Akira Ikeda, Daisuke Shimote, Shumpei Shimizu, Yusuke Shibata

and Chizuru Usui (Director, Happy Tent)