"Untitled"
Section MS17, Lennaart van Oldenborgh
Keywords: repetition, moving image, archive, photography, history
This project aims to deeply explore the historical photographs of the Narita Airport protests and their portrayal in different media. Combining static photos with dynamically edited videos allows viewers to intuitively compare different portrayals in news reports and the documentary "Sanrizuka Peasants of the Second Fortress", enhances understanding of the Narita Airport protests and explore the role and impact of media in disseminating events through this approach.
Shinsuke Ogawa's documentary "Sanrizuka Peasants of the Second Fortress (1971)" authentically records the daily lives and stories behind the protesters through long-term on-site filming, capturing the emotions, social dynamics, and conflicts of the time. The project aims to reinterpret the information in the historical photographs of the Narita Airport protests and how they are presented in news reports and Shinsuke Ogawa's documentary, from a dialectical perspective, exploring how the media shapes and disseminates these events.
Photographs in news reports emphasize immediacy and factual nature, representing official or mainstream perspectives, while Shinsuke Ogawa's documentary highlights the protesters' perspectives, their motives, activities, and the challenges they faced. The photographs focus more on the objective presentation of facts, whereas the video conveys the emotions and experiences of the people involved, thus touching the audience's feelings.