Hikaru Suzuki FILM SHOW "GOD AND FATHER AND ME"
2012.03.03.sat. #1 17:30 open / 18:00 start / 20:30- Talk Show [Daisuke Awata, Yuki Okumura, Hikaru Suzuki]
2012.03.04.sun. #2 14:00 open / 14:30 start *Can not enter after start
#3 17:00 open / 17:30 start / 20:00- Talk Show [Atsushi Sasaki, Tomoko Yabumae, Hikaru Suzuki]
Entrance: 1,200yen(each time / without Talk Show) seat:30(each time)
Employing the formula of documentary, Hikaru Suzuki works in both contemporary art and documentary cinema fields. Since "GOD AND FATHER AND ME," 2008, 36 minutes, Suzuki has been featuring actors in his films, exploring a new form of realism through an exquisite fusion of documentary as a way to capture the present and fiction as a vehicle of creativity.
Life is often filled with complex, abnormal factors that, however, we tend to neglect, as the term "normal" dominates our everyday. Hikaru Suzuki, nevertheless, turns his eyes delicately to the deep layer of it. By making people speak in their own voice about their particular, complicated family situations, Suzuki questions our notion of "home," as well as body and space, examining the boundaries between family members and others, the private and the public, and communities and nations. In a deadpan manner, some of his films combine facts and fictions, and it is the squeaking disharmony between them which makes each of his works artistically critical. He discovered this methodology through making "GOD AND FATHER AND ME," 2008, where he himself is involved and struggles.
-Yukiko Shikata, Media art curator
“Tokyo-London art exchange” (The Stephen Lawrence Gallery/ London, England)
“Party” (Gallexy Countach/ Tokyo)
2009
“Ongoing Movie Festival 2009” (Art Center Ongoing/ Tokyo)
“everything is under control 2” (Jack and Betty/ Kanagawa)
2010
“Screening and roof top party in Hong kong”(hong kong)
Film Festival
2010
"1st The KOENJI Documantary Festival 2010" (Tokyo)
"Ongoing Video festival" (Art Center Ongoing/ Tokyo)
"Suwa Lake Town Art Festival" (Katakura castle/ Tokyo)
2011
""TERATOTERA Festival" (Baus theater/ Tokyo)
"Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2011" New Asian Currents (Yamagata)
"TAMA NEW WEVE" (Tokyo)
"The 16th Art Film festival" Aichi Art Center (Aichi)
"Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions" Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (Tokyo)
Collaboration
"The Shepherd's Story / Shinjuku 2009+Ogaki 2010" (Director: Shinjiro Maeda, Hikaru Suzuki)
"BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW" SERIES (Founder: Shinjiro Maeda)
Awards
2008
Shijoko Iida Prize, ART AWARD TOKYO 2008
Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 08
2010
1st The KOENJI documentary film festival 2010
International Documantary Film Festival 2011 "The Shepherd's Story / Shinjuku 2009 + Ogaki 2010"
Book
2010
The 3th "toxic girls review"「Special topic・GOD AND ME」
(Graduate School of Letters, Prof. YOSHIOKA, Hiroshi(Aesthetics and Art Theory) criticize about "GOD AND FATHER AND ME")
Stage
2010
The viodeo in the Japanese traditional 女殺油地獄's - director Kim Itoh(Chiryu Public Theater)