Short Film "Spelling Dystopia" Screened
"Spelling Dystopia", a short film by Sapporo City University assistant professor Nina Fischer and Maroan el Sani, was screened at Uchida Yoko Co.'s U-cala hall on December 13th.
Maroan is second from the left, and Nina, third.
ICC, welcoming around 40 attendees, called this screening a "Creative Meeting".
A behind the scenes video, edited by students at Sapporo City University, was also screened at the event.
The film was screened on two screens.
Nina and Maroan base themselves out of Germany, Berlin, and Sapporo. Their specialty lies in creating visual pieces, installations, and photographic works.
"Spelling Dystopia" is a 16-minute short film set on Hashima Island, located off the coast of Nagasaki prefecture. Hashima is an uninhabited man-made concrete mining island. It had been 8 years, the last time being in the year 2000, since a camera had been taken onto the island.
The short film features students from Hokkaido Sapporo Higarashi High School forming letters with their bodies on one screen, while visuals of the island ran on the second screen. It aims to communicate the history and purpose the island served through the impressions it left on the high school students.
New Peak Film of ICC shot the short, while S-AIR and Sapporo Film Commission provided production support.
Members involved in the production of "Spelling Dystopia"
Following the screening, a cultural exchange party took place, centered around Nina and Maroan.。
Food was catered for the screening by Aoyama from Kitchen Support AO.
A scene from the cultural exchange.
Nina and Maroan's website:
http://www.fischerelsani.net/
Reporter: Daisuke Kobayashi
Translator: David Neptune
