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The trailer for a tryptic of films, Shrine, Field and Maids, made in response to the themes of history and identity in the CSM/TUA/Gap2018 collaboration.

3 'moments' are observed in Tokyo, Hong Kong and the UK. With juxtaposed imagery, speech and music they touch on shared issues of globalisation, seeds of division and the long shadow of war.

Shrine was filmed on the grounds of Ueno Toshogu, Tokyo: a beautiful setting for contemplation and remembrance, including that of the Hiroshima flame. In the August heat, amid the deafening noise of the Cicadas, the gentle music of Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No.9 wafted in the air. The presence of this distinctly ‘western’ sound was unexpected and at first, incongruous; but its use added an intriguingly transnational dimension, and it has been used here.

Field was a chance encounter with a poignant landscape in the south of England just after the London leg, in which the theme of seeds had been much discussed in relation to issues of nationality, freedom of movement and the challenging times we find ourselves in now. The field provided a powerful visual metaphor for the unsettling socio-political comparisons of our times to the 1930s, so it is accompanied here by an extract of Charlie Chaplin’s final speech from The Great Dictator.

Maids observed the Hong Kong weekly phenomenon in which every Sunday the central zone gets taken over by large numbers of domestic workers on their day off. They are largely low-paid Filipina and Indonesian ladies, who by law must live with their employers but have this one day off. Here, in pop-up cardboard villages outside the luxury brands, they hang out with their friends, pose for selfies, video-call their families and trade their own goods to send back home.

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