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| Shiho Kano |
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Kano began her career as an artist in the 90s. In 1996, she made
her first film and since then has worked as a moving image artist. She won the Grand Prix at the Media City Festival, Canada, and the Best International Film award at the Images Festival, Canada, among other awards. She was invited to Yamagata International
Documentary Film Festival, 2001, and the Rotterdam Film Festival four times (2001-2003,2005). In 2005, Kano stayed in Paris for one year with a grant from the Cultural Agency. In 2009, she participated in the "Imagination" exhibition at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Lives and works in Japan.
"Most obviously, Kano’s sensibility is related to the sensibility embodied in the history of Japanese gardens. She is interested in using the two media usually seen as the epitome of modern, urban, obsessively commercial life in order to transform limited expanses of space and limited durations of time into audio-visual experiences that offer lovely, sustained moments for cinematic meditation/contemplation. Further, compared with the American tradition of films that offer viewers “gardens” within the “machine” of modern life―I’m referring in particular to the films of Larry Gottheim, Peter Hutton, James Benning . . .―Kano works not only within more rigid spatial limits, but without the idea of separating herself from modern urban/suburban experience. Her best works―Rocking Chair, White Tablecloth (2000), Incense (2002), and Rosecolored Flower (2002)―do not involve literal escapes from conventional life; rather, Kano chooses sections of rooms within conventional urban living spaces, engulfed by the sounds of commercial life outside (automobile traffic, trains, and the like) and discovers/creates extended moments within which a particular quality of light, the subtle movement of a breeze, the wafting of a bit of smoke, a shade of rose reflected in a glass vase allow us to reconnect with the moment-to-moment incarnation of the world around us and to remember how much pleasure is available in even the smallest, least exciting moments and places."
Scott Mc Donald Film Critic “One shot film works of Sakumi Hagiwara and Shiho Kano”.
(Image Forum/Tokyo, Japan, 2003)
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