WATER TALES
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- The video is called "Water Tales," stories about water.00:00:23.213
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- It was made in Japan.00:00:28.349
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- It was made for triennale of contemporary art that00:00:31.932
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- is organized by Artfront Gallery in Tokyo.00:00:37.982
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- It is held in the prefecture of Niigata, on 750 km2 in mountains.00:00:41.939
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- The reason why they organize it right there00:00:49.156
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- is that they want to save the region that is slowly dying out.00:00:55.037
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- Young generation leave to cities.00:01:04.185
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- That is the reason why they intend to bring it to life again.00:01:06.536
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- The gallery chose the location.00:01:10.640
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- The village Oshirakura.00:01:13.041
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- Just about twenty people live there, mostly the elderly people.00:01:16.190
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- They live traditionally.00:01:20.152
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- They grow rice on their fields.00:01:23.787
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- So I have decided to catch this passing moment,00:01:26.819
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- to catch the way they treat water.00:01:31.418
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- Water is the most important for them.00:01:34.610
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- The part of the assignment was to include the community into the process of creation.00:01:36.871
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- I do some interview with them.00:01:43.605
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- I intend to wake up the things that are hidden inside of them.00:01:47.947
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- I was living nearby in some village for four years.00:01:55.868
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- I talked to my neigbours about their habbits.00:02:00.377
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- They do mechanically things like we do during Christmas,00:02:05.470
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- but they don´t think about the meanings.00:02:09.206
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- We did the projection for local people before the exhibition opening.00:02:12.373
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- The people had comments.00:02:17.804
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- I think the exhibition is important to them.00:02:20.519
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- They realized that it was worth living there.00:02:23.553