SHINGO YOSHIDA

Seeking Hidden

© 2003-2020 SHINGO YOSHIDA

FILM

Mononoke

Yakakushima / Shirakoma-ike Japan
 Year : 29-May / 8-June 2020
Length : 4min19sec  　　　Format : 4K ProRes 422HQ
Synopsis :
[Mononoke are vengeful spirits, dead spirits, live spirits, or spirits in Japanese classical literature and folk religion that were said to do things like possess individuals and make them suffer, cause disease, or even cause death. It is also a word sometimes used to refer to yōkai or henge ("changed beings")]

Kamuy yukar

ludèrt, ludèrt prèserva-me dera sèrp

頂上 -The Summit-

Pärnu_ Estonia

Réprouvé(castaway) : Calama Chile Year : 2018

The end of day and beginning of the world

the cuckoo’s nest

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.

Voyage au centre de la terre

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.

Marienkäfer-ladybug

Robert SCHUMANN Op. 68, No. 4.

Après une averse de pluie (After an evening shower)

Eckkneipe ( Berliner corner bar )

Trajectoire invisible

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

Windy

¿Sabe usted algo de la isla Friendship? (Do you know about Friendship Island?)

Castel Meur

Ross Castle Killarney Ireland. 27-12-2016

White Sun

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.

geister heimsuchen (haunting spirits)

SOS Morse code – Fernsehturm

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

Republic of Palau

Rixdorf

I prepared the perfect answer that you wanted

I prepared the perfect answer that you wanted

Year : 10-31 July 2010 Amazon Oiyakaha, Brasil
Length : 33 minutes 19 seconds
Format : HD ( up-converted 4K )
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.

Mystery on the Isle of Skye-Nessieland

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.

44° 47’ 25.83” N 20° 22’ 19.782” E

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

Forgettable / forget me not #5

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

Vie quotidienne (daily life)

Depopulation Shadow at the Dead Mall

Depopulation Shadow at the Dead Mall

Year : 2011 Maebashi Gunma, Japan
Length : 9 minutes 10 seconds
Format : HD ( up-converted 4K )
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

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

KARMA POINTS

27122015_EU_D-BER_SONNENALLEE

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.

wave to rocky

- 90°

Est – Nord – Est

A New Mistake

Cuba

Wheely

Burning car

Think about the space Medaka : Tokyo 2004

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.

cache-cache (Hide and seek)

in the mind of the capital

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.

MA BENZ : Nice France 2002

Terrains-vagues

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)

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.