Nina Fischer & Maroan el Sani

10 sec. thinking about the future

Tokyo [sur]face

Film-loop, 16mm, colour, 4:26 min­utes, mute, 1998

At the be­gin­ning of 1998, we asked young peo­ple in Hara­juku, Tokyo to look into the lens of a 16 mm Bolex film cam­era and think about the fu­ture for 10 sec­onds. In­spired by the “thought pho­tog­ra­phy“ in the early times of pho­tog­ra­phy, as re­searchers like Marie Curie found out about the phe­nom­ena to vi­su­al­ize ra­di­a­tion.

About Film Installation
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For the Snows­cape Moere, a win­ter art ex­hi­bi­tion at the Mo­erenuma Park in Sap­poro, we re­alised a mul­ti­screen video in­stal­la­tion in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the ar­chi­tect Shinichiro Akasaka. On a num­ber of tents, made of semi­trans­par­ent snow-re­sis­tant cloth, that cor­re­spond with the glass pyra­mid of Isamu Noguchi in a tem­po­rary sky­line, we pro­jected 5 videos with por­traits of peo­ple of dif­fer­ent eu­ro­pean and japan­ese cities, that think about the fu­ture for 10 sec­onds. It is an elu­sive image, just like a snowflake.