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HAMURA, 2006 video-projection 18 minutes The set of the video-recording is Hamura, approx. 50 km west of Tokyo. The video is an one-shot recording 18 of a minute dawn phase in real time. Taken from a metrostation the view goes along the tracks direction Tokyo. The metro-trains are passing and behind them open the barriers. People cross the rails in their cars and delivery vans, on motorcycles and bicycles or by feet. It is August and the cicadas chirp to the ballet-like flow of the cars and people leisurely moving times from the left to the right, times from the right to the left across the tracks and are sometimes passing by each other in the center. But the noises of the cars and other vehicles are not to be heard. Only the metro is heared if it is passing the platform. It is a clipping of the ordinary. Several times there is however loud engine noise to hear of that nobody seems to take note, because it is just as ordinary as everything else. It is the engine noise of American military machines, which start and land on the 2.5 km remote air base Yokota in Fussa. The Yokota air base served as an important base for the American military in the Iraq war and is still for the supply of the troops in service. |
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