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CINEMA IN THE HINTERLAND.

Cinema in the Hinterland. ++: Super 8mm :++ Simple film showings in the back of beyond (TRIAL) WHAT? Showing ...

2012-01-04 | itoi+ru-san

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day ...

English Parents feel the need to explore. English Parents sanpo suru in Kamibun. They have ...

2011-12-19 | itoi+ru-san | 　1 comments

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day One / Day ...

The English Parents arrive in Tokushima station missing one suitcase. They are wearing Scottish patterns ...

2011-12-18 | itoi+ru-san | 　4 comments

Tanakazu Wild Boar Butcher

Tanakazu Nishimori san spends 100 days as a carpenter, 100 days as a farmer and ...

2011-11-30 | itoi+ru-san

Sanpo Suru #8

I found a shrine on the top of a mountain. It took me a while ...

2011-11-28 | itoi+ru-san

Sanpo Suru #7

Juliken joined me for a sanpo suru in Kamibun up the old michi that Harada ...

2011-11-05 | itoi+ru-san

Part 2: 人形浄瑠璃 Ningyo Joruri in Toyota City ...

I’m awake after a fairly sleepless night. Most of the alcohol in my body has ...

2011-10-29 | itoi+ru-san

KAIR 2011 INTERVIEWS!

Interviews with the KAIR 2011 artists! Next, we have YUI INOUE from JAPAN! (I asked the artists ...

2011-10-27 | itoi+ru-san

Part 1: 人形浄瑠璃 Ningyo Joruri in Toyota City 豊田市 ...

(ABOVE, a robot sponsored by KAIR and developed by Toyota to play the trumpet) Our ...

2011-10-19 | itoi+ru-san

KAIR 2011 INTERVIEWS!

Interviews with the KAIR 2011 artists! Next, we have MARINA from PORTUGAL! (I asked the artists to ...

2011-10-15 | itoi+ru-san | 　1 comments

KAIR 2011 INTERVIEWS!

It’s back. Interviews with the KAIR 2011 artists! I asked the artists to look as frightening ...

2011-10-14 | itoi+ru-san | 　2 comments

Kamibun International Sports Festival ...

The KISF happens once a year in the yard outside the (empty) junior school in ...

2011-10-13 | itoi+ru-san | 　1 comments

Moth

It’s called Yamamayuga (ヤママユガ ) or Antheraea yamamai and it had a nice 15cm wingspan ...

2011-10-01 | itoi+ru-san | 　2 comments

FRONT..GARDENS

Documenting small public street-front gardens. In Japan.

2011-09-30 | itoi+ru-san | 　1 comments

Subtitles Vol. 1

I made a short film a while back: ‘Subtitles Vol.1’ that was shown in an ...

2011-09-27 | itoi+ru-san | 　2 comments

Kamibun Artist in Residence: Harada san (the ...

I asked Harada san if he wanted to come for another walk and he said ‘Is ...

2011-09-22 | itoi+ru-san

Lost Photographs (Awa Odori 2011)

For one reason or another sometimes I don’t get round to making a post and ...

2011-09-19 | itoi+ru-san

F R O N T. . .G A R D E N S

Documenting small public street-front gardens. In Japan. It is an ongoing project. For me they represent lots ...

2011-08-29 | itoi+ru-san | 　1 comments

Awa Odori 2011

‘I am Gareth. I am a carpenter and a designer. I live in London. I ...

2011-08-15 | itoi+ru-san

Doughy band

They play an air guitar, air bass, air cymbals, air drums, an air theremin and ...

2011-08-11 | itoi+ru-san

The flowers on the mountain, over the hill near Kamibun (and some more indoors, somewhere else). ...

There are loads of flowers hanging around at the moment, it’s that time of the ...

2011-05-05 | itoi+ru-san

Kamiyama Juku 2010

On the 6th of December 2010, fifteen young people come together to begin a new ...

2011-04-25 | itoi+ru-san | 　2 comments

CONDENSATION @ Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, ...

EXHIBITION: Featuring Eri Itoi (糸井恵理) alongside Annie Attridge, Jonathan Baldock, Sarah Gillham, Anthea Hamilton, Mindy ...

2011-03-10 | itoi+ru-san

Sanpo Suru #5

Stepping through the snow, along this white mountain street and there are footprints all around ...

2011-03-05 | itoi+ru-san | 　5 comments

Charcoal Kiln Firing Process!

So to recapitulate, wood is stacked inside, clay is pounded into an egg-like katachi forming ...

2010-12-07 | itoi+ru-san | 　1 comments

Ginkgo 銀杏

The largest ginkgo tree in Kamiyama illuminated for a few days, each evening. It’s 500 years old, ...

2010-12-01 | itoi+ru-san | 　3 comments

Charcoal Kiln Repair

The bulk of the repair work involved building a new roof/cap for the kiln. ...

2010-11-15 | itoi+ru-san | 　3 comments

Yuzu Harvest

Harvesting yuzu fruits at Higashitani san’s old house for the past two days. It’s done ...

2010-11-11 | itoi+ru-san

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CINEMA IN THE HINTERLAND.

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day ...

English Parents in Kamiyama - Day One / Day ...

Tanakazu Wild Boar Butcher

Sanpo Suru #8

Sanpo Suru #7

Part 2: 人形浄瑠璃 Ningyo Joruri in Toyota City ...

KAIR 2011 INTERVIEWS!

Part 1: 人形浄瑠璃 Ningyo Joruri in Toyota City 豊田市 ...

KAIR 2011 INTERVIEWS!

KAIR 2011 INTERVIEWS!

Kamibun International Sports Festival ...

Moth

FRONT..GARDENS

Subtitles Vol. 1

Kamibun Artist in Residence: Harada san (the ...

Lost Photographs (Awa Odori 2011)

F R O N T. . .G A R D E N S

Awa Odori 2011

Doughy band

The flowers on the mountain, over the hill near Kamibun (and some more indoors, somewhere else). ...

Kamiyama Juku 2010

CONDENSATION @ Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, ...

Sanpo Suru #5

VAAM (Nests)...

kuクriリsuスmaマsuス in ...

Charcoal Kiln Firing Process!

Ginkgo 銀杏

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Yuzu Harvest

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