Yoko Fukushima (Japan)
Japanese videomaker
participant in
biography
VIP – VideoChannel Interview
CologneOFF IV – Here We Are!
4th edittion of Cologne Online Film Festival 2008 – LAB program series
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Video title:
“Hitchhiker”
2007, 2:03
In a greyish winter light, a hitchhiking girl stands on the side of an isolated road. She is getting ready full of hope in hearing the sound of a motor.
But the car races by without slowing down. Hopelessness.
Alone in the desert, she finally surrenders. Nobody will give her a ride.
In repeating the same situation, she decides to carry on walking. Unaware of what to expect on the road, facing cold and loneliness, hoping to encounter wonderful things on the way, she will walk towards her destination.
This is when the viewer discovers what is written on the sign: « paradise »