Sarushima Island with a Fort: Ruins and Graffiti (1987)

砲台のあった島 猿島 あるいは廃墟と落書

Sarushima Island lies off the coast of Yokosuka Port. In the late Edo Period the island was outfitted with artillery and in the Meiji period a fort was constructed by the Army. After Japan’s defeat in the war, it was opened as a sea park and young people began to make it a destination. Noda visited it to shoot in black and white in 1968, and in color in 1983. In excluding human figures from the screen and filming ruins and graffiti in their materiality, he experiments at creating a visual poem.

Date of release
1987-10-11
Runtime
25m
Director
Shinkichi Noda

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