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However, you can see 20 films with English subtitles. Please check these films!

"BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW"
Improvised films made using an instruction sheet that directed filmmakers to
shoot one day and recored commentary on the day before and the day after shooting.

1.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW #06 ITO-kun
MAEDA SHINJIRO/5'00"/digital/2011

2.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW #03 "IN THE CAR"
SUZUKI HIKARU/5'00"/digital/2011

3.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW "hello" to "ciao"
ARIKAWA SHIGEO/5'00"/digital/2011

4.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW neon no kuni / land of neon
NAKAZAWA AKI/5'00"/digital/2011

5.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW #01 OUR PLACE
KIMURA NORIYUKI/5'00"/digital/2011

6.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW #01 OHKAWA
TAKASHI TOSHIKO/5'00"/digital/2011

7.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW #01 Halo
ISHIKAWA TAMAGAWA/5'00"/8mm→digital/2011  

8.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW #03 Old Man and Old Woman
MATSUSHIMA SHUNSUKE/5'00"/digital/2011

9.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW #01 "Stop Nuclear Power Plants!"
UMANO NORIKO/5'00"/digital/2011

10.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW LUNDI
NISHIMURA TOMOMI/5'00"/digital/2011

11.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW #01 Constitution Day
YASUNO TARO/5'00"/digital/2011

12.BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW #01 ISHINOMAKI
OKAMOTO AKIO/5'00"/digital/2011

13.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW #01 Suzuka Mountain Trail
HAGIHARA KENICHI/5'00"/digital/2011

14.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Home
WAKAMI ARISA/5'00"/digital/2011

15.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW A Quiet Day
IKEDA YASUNORI/5'00"/digital/2011

16.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW "still"
IGARASHI TOMOKO/5'00"/digital/201

17.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW "PUNICHAN"
TANJC/5'00"/digital/2011

18.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW #01 landscape
HAYASHI YUKI/5'00"/digital/2011

19.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW #01 invitation
MIYAMOTO HIROSHI/5'00"/digital/2011

20.
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW May_be
OKI HIROYUKI/5'00"/digital/2011

about "BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW"

I began wonk on the “BYT” series in 2008. the essence of the “instruction sheet
"that requires contributors to record commentary on the day before and the day
after filming is based on the idea of “the visual experience of gazing at the
present while superimposing the past and future.” I was also conscious of such
things as the relationship between the vividness of the individual's voice and
the visuals and a structure that injects into the work the motives and
considerations of the artist. The instruction sheet was originally for my own
use, but after completing a number of works I came up with the idea of asking
others to contribute pieces, Some two weeks after the March 11 earthquake and
tsunami, I hit upon the idea of publishing the “BYT” series on the Internet,
and asking filmmakers I trusted to contribute was a natural progression from
this. While the filmmakers were not required to address the earthquake and
tsunami or the nuclear accident, on viewing the first ten or so contributions
I sensed that the project unintentionally served as a record of “Japan in 2011,”
Looking at the works again, it also seems that few of the contributors were
conscious of making “one work as part of a whole.” Without doubt, each of the
contributors used this as an opportunity to encourage audiences to think about
“recording and creation” in filmic expression. If “recording” entails turning
intangible things into subjects that can be confronted, then perhaps “creation”
in filmic expression entails searching for ways to share the results and render
them corporeal. 

 [MAEDA Shinjiro]
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