Film

Film Excerpts 2003-2020

頂上 -The Summit- : Mt Fuji Japan2020

Year : 2020 March
Length : 23 min 54 sec
Format : 4K ProRes 422 HQ
Special Thanks : Satoshi Ikeda
Text translation : Jaime Humphreys & Satoshi Ikeda

Synopsis

[On August 20th , Shōwa 49 (1974), a stone tablet inscribed with a haiku was set atop Mt. Fuji. This was my father’s near-reckless project, to fulfil
the dream of my grandfather who was a haiku poet, —to bring a stone tablet to Kengamine next to the observatory on Mt. Fuji, the highest peak of Japan
worshipped as its symbol from ancient times.]

昭和49年8月20日、富士山頂にひとつの句碑が建立された。それは、古来より崇められてきた日本の象徴である最高峰に、
俳人であった祖父の夢を叶える為に、測候所の脇の剣ヶ峰に句碑を運び上げる、無謀ともいえる父親のプロジェクト。

Réprouvé(castaway) : Calama Chile Year : 2018

Jun 2018 4K 3min 37 sec
Year : 2018 June Calama, Chile
Length : 3 min 37 sec
Format : 4K ProRes 422 HQ
Camera / Film Editor : Shingo Yoshida
Sound Installation / Recording : Shingo Yoshida
Sound Editor and Mixing : Thomas Ghazi
Special thanks : gonzalo reyes araos

Synopsis :
An amount of abandoned garbage in the vacant land at the end of the city of Calama in Chile. Stray dogs and gypsies have settled,
the place is like a no man's land where one can breathe an untouchable atmosphere.
There is always a strong wind blowing on the flat ground.
S.Yoshida made a wind instrument installation with abandon bottles.

the cuckoo’s nest

Year : 05-2017 Harlösa Sweden. The Avian Kingdom
Length : 27min
Format : 4K ProRes 422 HQ

Synopsis
In 1644 a resistance nest was built by defenseless farmers against the Swedish army approaching from the North. 700 civilists were executed and their dead bodies were thrown into a valley in Harlösa. Since they were never burried, their traces can be found until today.

Denmark lost the historical province Scania to Sweden in 1648 with the end of the Thirty Years' War, one of the bloodiest conflicts in European history.

In the following decades the Danish so-called “Snapphanars“ kept resistance as guerilla fighters against the Sweds. If one was caught, exucution was done by breaking wheel or impalement.

The two colors of the flag of Scania remind of the connection to Denmark and its belonging to Sweden. It has been kept in remembrance by the locals.

Réminiscence

Year : March 2018 Svalbard-Longyearbyen, Norway
Length : 13 min 49 sec
Format : 4K ProRes 422 HQ
Music : Thomas Ghazi

Synopsis

Svalbard - Longyearbyen, Norway’s latitude is 78 N̊ orth. The Eternal ice land.

In pursuit of The Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

It is a long-term seed storage facility, built to stand the test of time — and the challenge of natural or man-made disasters.

The Seed Vault represents the world’s largest collection of crop diversity.

What I think in front of the Wilderness. Rechecking myself, nostalgia, memoirs, living in the past and sketching the future, between the mind and non-mind, escaping from weakness. Leaving things undone. How to not Think. Hearing images.

Trajectoire invisible

Year : 2013 Nice France 2013
Length : 13 min 44 sec
Format : HD

With support of : Villa Arson Nice France / l'association colombophile "La Colombe de la Riviera"

Special thanks : M. Ferrandez / Baptiste César /
Sandrine Cormault

Synopsis :

The original film documents the continuous flight of a Carrier pigeon over the city of Nice, France.
Dropped along the coastline, the Carrier pigeon having a mini camera attached, flies all the way back to the hinterland.

The images make us gain insight into new natural and urban landscapes.

sound : Cejudo Jonathan

ISALA-FRIENDSHIP

Year : Isla toto Chile. 2012
Length : 33 minutes 19 seconds
Format : HD
Special thanks : VATICANOCHICO / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chile

Synopsis

FRIENDSHIP is a mysterious island at the Archipiélago de las Guitecas (Chile) which does not exist on the map.
People from the south know the island by rumors that link FRIENDSHIP to
miraculous healings and OVNI phenomena.
Shingo Yoshida is travelling most of the time. Toto Island is part of the same archipelago to which Shingo travelled with an improvised manual for basic communication, containing ready made phrases in Spanish regarding the purpose of his trip. The manual,

an old radio and his video camera would be the only means to establish contacts and collect information

on the Friendship enigma. ¿Sabe usted algo de la isla Friendship? (What Do You Know About Friendship Island?)

Kamikochi

Year : 19-oct-2018 Kamikochi Japan
Length : 11min 02sec
Sound : No
Format : 4K ProRes 422 HQ
Special thanks : Yojiro Murai

It's one of a my postcard project.

It was Kamikochi in Japan.
Kamikochi is a popular resort in the Northern Japan Alps of Nagano Prefecture, offering some of Japan's most spectacular mountain scenery.

In the legend, the name of "Kamikochi" comes from " god descending to land "

I realized a film as postcard.
cause post-cards represent places where we was travelling,
places where we live and we wish to share with someonelse.

Mystery on the Isle of Skye-Nessieland

Year : 21-28 Nov 2014 Isle of Skye, Inverness
Scotland, UK
Length : 4min 59 sec
Format : 4K ProRes 422 HQ
Special thanks : Yojiro Murai

Synopsis

the work about the Loch Ness, Scottish Nessie.
Why is it attracting so many people over a long period, even though it is almost proven that it does not exist?
Humans are terrified and worried about what they can not see.
This is a video, photo and postcard works that has been done to confirm why.

ERROR

Year : 2012 Berlin, Germany
Length : 11 min
Format : HD

Synopsis

‘’Error’’ by Shingo Yoshida focuses on a glitch in a streetlamp at Alexanderpatz, the rhythmic flickering appears almost to be staged; This malfunction, those moments when the lights turn off, mark its presence. It paradoxically shows itself only as it suddenly disappears.

Yoshida relates this curious public incident, that occurs night after night just outside his studio, to a silent personal reflection of one’s own alienated presence amidst an urban setting, where an overwhelming network of functionality attempts to guide us so that we do not have to grope in the dark.

However, this ultimately shrouds a latent frailty and absurdity that flashes like a pleading morse code, yet goes unnoticed and almost forgotten. By screening his reaction to this phenomenon on his studio window Yoshida opens up a dialogue between the two objects,the lamp and its representation, drawing our attention to these frailties.

John McKiernan

SOS Morse code – Fernsehturm

Year : 30 April 2010 Berlin, Germany
Length : 4 minutes 42 seconds
Sound : No
Format : HD
Performance : Shingo Yoshida
Special thanks : Philip Vormwald

Synopsis

Shingo Yoshida’s video SOS Morse code – Fernsehturmengages the subject of communication codes with an absurd stunt at Berlin’s iconic TV Tower, a “futuristic” reminder of East German optimism and an inescapable symbol of the unified city. Just before closing and from inside the dark, empty lounge located in the giant sphere suspended high above the city, Yoshida employed an existing table lamp to flash out a forlorn SOS. The video documentation of this performance attains a melancholic, even existential grandeur at once personal and universal by presenting both a dramatic intent and a negligible effect.

RODNEY LATOURELLE

I prepared the perfect answer that you wanted

Year : 10-31 July 2010 Amazon Oiyakaha, Brasil
Length : 33 minutes 19 seconds
Format : HD
Special thanks : Markus Shimizu
With support of Shiseido Company

Synopsis

Due to unexpected events in a challenging jungle environment, Yoshida's three-week survival sojourn comes to by chance and lacking running water or electricity prompted a new regeneration of the self and reconstruction of circumstances,
via self-destructive behavior. The result is a work of raw, unrelenting realism.

Forgettable / forget me not #5

Year : 2005 Lyon France
Length : 9 minutes 45 seconds
Format : SD

Anywhere there are people who take care of the animals within a city. In the ancient Colosseum in Lyon, France there was an old lady who took care of eight black cats treating them to a meal three times a day. To get at the root of this old lady’s intention I made her a black plush cat by hand as a present. This is the documentary video

Depopulation Shadow at the Dead Mall

Year : 2011 Maebashi Gunma, Japan
Length : 9 minutes 10 seconds
Format : HD
With support of Frédéric Weigel-Palais des paris / L’Association Franco-Japonaise de Gunma
Special thanks : Johanny Melloul / Chanteuse Chizuko

Project at the Dead Mall (smells like murder) 過疎化の陰Depopulation problem
I hope that The first step to revival is to evoke conscience of a rough reality and face it.

Je suis venu chercher du travail

Year : 2011 Lyon France at 3 AM.
Length : 4 min 39 seconds
Format : HD

Performance :
Shingo Yoshida

Synopsis
Je suis venu chercher du travail"
This is a performance in front of the Immigration authority in Lyon, France at 3 AM.
Problems of handling working visas etc. have not been improved during all the years. However, this is why I chose Francis Bebey’s “Je suis venue chercher du travail” from the 1970s.

Special thanks :
Jean alain Corre / Bertrand Lacombe / Lou Masduraud / Hervault Romain / Diana Righini / Jean alain Corre

With support of
MAC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon

Music : Francis Bebey
Album : Original Masters Vol 1
Label :IFR

27122015_EU_D-BER_SONNENALLEE

Year : 27 Dec 2015 Berlin
Length : 4min 39 sec
Format : 4K ProRes 422 HQ

Synopsis

The title, "27122015_EU_D-BER_SONNENALLEE" is derived from the title digital file displayed on his SD card.
On 27 December, 2015, he found a teddy bear at S-Bahnhof SONNENALLEE. He felt that the bear represented the city of Berlin, which had been left behind for years.
From the day he found the teddy bear, he started taking photographs and videos of his everyday life and since then has compiled them in the work "27122015_EU_D-BER_SONNENALLEE."
Through the new work, Yoshida wants to facilitate and share dialogues with the audience about their anxiety and expectation in the past, the present, and the future and want them to feel them directly in his installation work.

VIBRATION LAKE

Year : 31 Dec 2007 ChiangMai Thailand
Length : 7 minutes 18 seconds
Format : HD
Sound Installation with Chaing Mai City noise in garbages.
Special thanks : SUMO STUDIO® Shingo Yoshida, Ludovic Méhauté, Kuo-wei Lin

Synopsis
Sound installation in Chiang Mai, Thailand
To make people embrace the beauty of nature just a few steps out of the city we replayed recorded sounds of
the city and stray dogs’ voices from a trash cam onto the lake,
thus holding a contest of the city’s and the nature’s echoes.

Think about the space Medaka : Tokyo 2004

Year : 2004 Tokyo
Length : 4min 05 sec
Format : SD

Performance :
Shingo Yoshida

Synopsis
I got an inspiration from the space Medaka project in the Space Shuttle Colombia
What is the space "MEDAKA"?　　
(refering to "Chiaki Mukai 15days of flight the space shuttle "Colombia" with "MEDAKA")
What influence will the life on earth get when they go up to the space? In order to research such questions, the space shuttle "Colombia" was launched to the space, carrying animals, such as "MEDAKA", newts, goldfish, etc. on July 8, 1994.

in the mind of the capital

Year : Feb 2003 Budapest Hungary
Length : 3min 8 sec
Format : SD

Performance :
Shingo Yoshida
christophe boursault

Special thanks : Bani Patric / Vânor Casba

With support of : Villa Arson Nice / Hungarian Academy of fine Arts Budapest

Installation work :

Fixing the whole on the street with an advertising poster
Installation/Budapest, Hungary, 2003.
Streets were still in a run-down state after the collapse of the socialist regime, so my goal was to use an advertising poster, which I saw as a symbol of the new consumer society, to fix the street.

Terrains-vagues

Year : Dec 2003 Nice France
Length : 5 min 06 sec
Format : SD

Sound performance :
Shingo Yoshida& Christophe Boursault

With support of : Villa Arson Nice France

Synopsis
It works as an interactive sound installation. It is constituted by a metal barrier provided with sensors connected to a data-processing program.
A simple contact with the barrier starts the mechanism and produce the sounds.
The program is regulated to react according to the intensity of the contact. Thus a caress will bring the sound of children while a more violent blow will lead to barkings of dogs or sirens of firemen.
The whole of the recordings result from the urban sound environment

Journal Intime (Diary)

Year : 30 Nov 2002- 08 June 2003 France / Switzerland
Length : 8 min 48 sec
Format : SD

Performance :
Shingo Yoshida

Special thanks : Christophe Boursault / Crystal Cerise

With support of : Villa Arson Nice France / HEAD Genève Swiss

Synopsis

The performance of Shingo Yoshida is while being documented as video or photography frequently introducing stereotypical characters. The performer finds himself in awkward situations between reality and fiction.

SHINGO YOSHIDA

Seeking Hidden

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