The Summer of Arte
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About one day in the summer at the Arte Piazza Bibai is a sculpture park in the mountains in Hokkaido, Japan. Bibai, once one of the largest coal mining cities, has been suffering from critical depopulation. The project of art plaza was initiated in order to revitalize the town with arts and cultural promotion.
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Takayuki Yoshida
Born in 1972, Hokkaido, Japan. Completed my master’s degree program in sociology at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo and worked for the Japan Foundation. Studied filmmaking at the Film School of Tokyo. Obtained a certificate in cinema management from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. Worked as a coordinator for an international film festival TOKYO FILMEX and Talents Tokyo. An editor of the Japanese journal on documentary films NEONEO, and co-author of Japanese books such as Chris Marker (2014), American Avant-Garde Movies (2016), and Southeast Asian Cinema (2019). I am a coordinator for the film workshop for children which is a project funded by a local ward in Tokyo.
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