{"id":113,"date":"2008-11-29T17:07:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vad.nmartproject.net\/?page_id=113"},"modified":"2008-12-08T14:34:52","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T13:34:52","slug":"toda-shoko","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vad.nmartproject.net\/?page_id=113","title":{"rendered":"Toda, Shoko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shoko Toda (Japan)<\/strong><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/and.nmartproject.net\/?p=1553\">biography<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vip.newmediafest.org\/?page_id=160\">VIP &#8211; VideoChannel Interview<\/a><\/li>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><flv href=\"http:\/\/video.newmediaserver.org\/coff\/4\/off\/toda.flv\" width=\"420\" height=\"300\" autostart=\"false\" \/><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>Video title:<br \/>\n<strong>A growing white stone <\/strong><br \/>\n2008, 14min34<\/p>\n<p>The film was inspired from my experiment of staying in Sarajevo every summer for 2003~2007.<br \/>\nI made this narrative film on the theme of flowing identity between cultures.<br \/>\nThis story is of one Japanese woman.<br \/>\nHere is synopsis of story.<br \/>\n&#8220;I have visited in Sarajevo, BiH every summer.  The first time to visit there is already 5yars ago. At small grave stone maker&#8217;s shop I found a gravestone which had the name as same as mine. The stone maker with a beard like a lion said &#8220;She ordered this stone, but she has not come to take it for years.&#8221; Then I began to investigate about her.For these years I have met people who said to know her. I talked with them and took their photos.<br \/>\nOne day I thought she wanted another gravestone or something..<br \/>\nI start to design new gravestone for her and me.<br \/>\nI found the photo album that seemed to belong to her.<br \/>\nWhen Looking photos of her summer life, I felt to smell of green plant, so I imaged that and designed stones.<br \/>\nWith new information about her, the gravestone drawn on notebooks has been changing again and again. One winter day I was in another country. I was surround with loud explosions of fireworks and firecrackers.<br \/>\nThose intense explosions didn&#8217;t stop for 3days and nights.<br \/>\nIt is a ritual to celebrate a happy new year on sky and ground.<br \/>\nThe gravestones drown by me were getting to spread like a fireworks.<br \/>\nIn Sarajevo we can see fireworks on the opening day of the film festival.<br \/>\nI have heard that she always was looking forward to seeing that.<br \/>\nI decide to shot a firework for her and me in another far country.<br \/>\nWhen I was in roar of fireworks I was remind of those white gravestones.<br \/>\nIn the course of time I come not to know where I stand on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This video participates in<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/coff.newmediafest.org\/index4.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CologneOFF IV &#8211; Here We Are!<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n4th edittion of Cologne Online Film Festival 2008<br \/>\nOFF program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoko Toda (Japan) biography VIP &#8211; VideoChannel Interview . . Video title: A growing white stone 2008, 14min34 The film was inspired from my experiment &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vad.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vad.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vad.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vad.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vad.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vad.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vad.nmartproject.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}