Meiro Koizumi

This work from Meiro is a two-part video. The first part features warm footage of a man standing on a street corner talking to his mother on his cell phone and inviting her to a visit a hot spring with him. The next sequence shows the same, but with the actual conversation that took place. In this video installation, the sensibility unique to melodramatic Japanese movies has been distortedly appropriated. A video installation combining two-part video, photography, and a letter. The first part of the video features warm footage of a man standing on a street corner talking to his mother on his cell phone and inviting her to visit a hot spring with him. The next sequence features the same, but with the actual conversation that took place. In this video installation, the sensibility unique to melodramatic Japanese movies has been distortedly appropriated. The project began with me asking the actor to write a letter to his mother who had passed away. I've forcibly inserted an extremely personel sense of 'honne' (true feeling), into the mental mechanism of 'tatemae' (facade) in which a connection with the other is avoided. It was an attempt at a departure from a creative process that involved being holed up in a studio and filming in a way that can be perceived an 'otaku' (nerd) mentality, of avoiding any contact with the outside world.