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The below short film brings a still photograph to life as part of a larger personal project exploring memory, history and how stories are carried through generations. Using subtle motion and voice, the piece sits between photography and film. It is an experiment in using contemporary tools to engage with archival material and my own photography without losing the weight or meaning of each moment. It grew out of a single photograph I took in the late 1990s of my grandfather, W

It started as a high school art project. I gave myself the task of photographing my grandfather for a school assignment because still-life art photography bored me senseless. He was a survivor of prisoner of war camps in the south of Japan during WWII, imprisoned for more than three and a half years and forced into slave labour at the Kawanami Shipyards (now Mitsubishi Heavy Industries), and later at a mine further north. Not long after the destruction of Nagasaki, an event t

http://www.mediafactory.org.au/daniel-bowden/2015/08/14/returning-sound-to-the-soil/

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