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Outdoor Screening Action
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野外上映アクション

雑誌『映画芸術』のイベントの中で稲川さんと対談されてましたが、そこで印象的だなと思ったのは、ずいぶん長い間、沖島監督は妄想の中で生きていたと。それが何かはわからないが。先ほどちょっと伝え忘れたのですが、(沖島監督の)第1作は69年で、2作目が89年で、その間にテレビの脚本をたくさん量産されていて、『まんが日本昔話』に関しては1400話、メインライターですよね。いわゆる、「なんとかじゃった」という言葉は沖島さんから生まれたと言っても過言ではないのですが、そこでシナリオを書かれていたという時期があり、このあいだおっしゃっていたのは、ただそうは言っても、開発、開発で足を踏みしめる大地がなければ妄想すら出来ないとおしゃってましたけど(0:14)

今日は沖島さんが玉川上水を歩きながら、画面にいろんな人が通り過ぎるのですが、あの人たちはあの人たちでぜんぜん違う見え方をあの場所にしているっていうのが、いわあゆるあの場所がなくなるっていう自然環境の問題があるんですけれども、もっと重要なのはそこにいる人たちのある種の存在とか想像力とか考え方、思考みたいなものが根こそぎもっていかれるような問題意識があって、ここ(宮下公園)でやる意味はあるんじゃないかなと思って(1:18)

自然、自然なんて言ったって貧しい自然でね。生活そのものはそういう意味で貧しいんですよ。でも、そこへこだわらないと、取り付く場所もないんだよね(2:20)

Outdoor Screening

One thing I particularly remember when Mr. Okishima, a film director, was talking in an event organised by a magazine Film Art. He said he had once lost himself in a fantasy for a while, though he didn’t say what it was. Just an additional information but Okishima used to work on TV scripts for 20 years between his first film in 1969 and the second one in 1989, particularly for ‘Manga Japanese Folklore Tales’ that had 1400 episodes. You could almost say he invented the famous opening phrase “once upon a time…” Anyway, in the talk, he was saying that nowadays, urban development and gentrification dominate all over Japan and there is no land where we can grab with our feet. So much so that we can’t even have fantasies…(0.14)

At today’s screening of his documentary, Mr. Okishima was walking along the Tamagawa canal while people passing by. They were all seeing the same scenery but perhaps differently. You know, the main concern of environmental problem for many is the disappearance of familiar sceneries. But perhaps even more fearsome issue is that the local people’s life, imagination, way of thinking, philosophy, these things are disappearing. So it was meaningful to show this documentary at Miyashita Park where the local government is planning gentrification.(1.18)

People nowadays talk about nature but the nature we have now is so poor. To this extent, our life has become poor. It’s unfortunate but we have nothing else other than this poor nature to hang on to.(2.20)

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August 2010 / Miyashita Park, Tokyo
images & sounds / Hikaru Fujii
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1min 24sec

Miyashita Park Artist in Residence
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