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Butterfly (S)

Original title: Butterfly
Year: 2021
Running time: 7 min.
Country: Japan
Director: Mami Kosemura
Screenwriter: Mami Kosemura
Cast: Documentary
Cinematography: Mami Kosemura
Genre: Documentary | Short Film. Experimental Cinema
Synopsis: This video series is based on Shasei-cho, a sketchbook by Okyo Maruyama (1733-1795, Japan). The Shasei-cho was copied by various other artists and became a fundamental reference for how Japanese perceive and record the natural world. 蝶 Butterfly was created by photographing actual butterflies in super-slow motion with reference to the composition and drawing style of the Shasei-cho. Each movement is a reflection of the butterfly's behavior, characteristics and personality at the time. This work is a modern-day Shasei-cho that I observed and recorded based on the techniques of the great painters of the past. (Mami Kosemura)

Born in 1975 in Kanagawa, Mami Kosemura is a contemporary artist who uses photography and animation to explore the confluence of painting, video and photography, referring to classical European motifs and traditional subjects such as Japanese painting. Kosemura holds a PhD in Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts (2005) and has had a solo exhibition at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, as well as group shows at Asia Society Museum in New York, the Freer and Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C., the International Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale, and at Kunsthal KAdE in the Netherlands. Her work is part of numerous collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo National University of the Arts, Gunma Museum of Art in Tatebayashi, Asia Society Museum and Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan.

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Butterfly (S)

2021

Mami Kosemura