https://www.mori.art.museum/en/learning/7366
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Synopsis:
Koki Tanaka’s new film “Mobility and Extinction“ provides a collective take on the question if our ethical values are predicated on the continuation of humanity, such as Samuel Schaeffler describes it in “Death and the Afterlife”, or, if “mobility“ as the penultimate Western-centric quality to define “freedom” will turn in its opposite and lead into a catastrophe, as German philosopher Eva Von Redecker has drawn out recently in her book “Bleibefreiheit (Freedom to Stay)”.
The film is based on footage taken at a performative event on March 15th and 16th, which took place in a hotel that has been closed down after COVID-19 and later repurposed as a vaccination center. Two anthropologists, an activist, a political scientist, a media theorist, and a philosopher are responding to the science fiction scenarios of human’s extinction by an asteroid, in comparison to a slow human extinction by infertility.
Over nine episodes, the film explores topics such as birth, climate change, climate refugees, Gaza, family, poetry, the body, norms, anxiety, right-wing politics, time, cats, and more. In its slowly meandering character the film is a document of human activity along with conflicting opinions, but also the porosity of the borders in private versus public speech, as it is characteristic for Tanaka’s work.
(by martin germann)
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Project title: Mobility and Extinction
Year: 2024
Material: Film
Duration: 60 mins
Commissioned by European Union
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Protagonists:
Erina Imai
Yayo Okano
Susanne Klien
Gergely Mohacsi
Tomoko Shimizu
Tami Yanagisawa
Online Participants:
Mahmoud Al-Shaer
Miwa Negoro
Atsuro Morita
Eva von Redecker
Facilitator
Tami Yanagisawa
Tomoko Shimizu
Curator
Martin Germann
Line Producer Natsuko Odate
Director of Photography Yasuhiro Moriuchi
Sound Recordist Ryota Fujiguchi
Sound Mixer Taro Nishigaki
Camera Operator Kaori Yamane
Boom Operator Mari Suzuki
Camera Assistant Ushin Tei
Filming Assistant Hinano Oda
public event:
Technical Engineer:
So Ozaki (Goethe-Institut Tokyo)
Sound Operation:
Takeshi Inarimori
Lighting yukiko yoshimoto
Production Managers:
Ulrike Krautheim (Goethe-Institut Tokyo)
Fumiko Toda
Assistant Production:
ManagerShoko Sonoda
Receptionist:
Tomoko Takasaka
Post Production:
Editing and Color Grading: Koki Tanaka
Sound Editing: Ryota Fujiguchi
English Subtitles: DEAN SHIMAUCHI TRANSLATIONS
Subtitle Spotting: Naoko Hamaoka
Filming Locations: Former Toyama Akasaka Kaikan
pop-up childcare: BabySitterTOKYO Inc.
Special Thanks:
Hiroko Katayama
Toyama Prefecture
Yoshiko Isshiki Office
The project was commissioned by European Union
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