Inspiration
PEOPLE
Kentaro Kobayashi for his wild talent and exquisite craft that is eerie, melancholic and humorous
Experimental Jetset for their universal design thinking and their creation of the ‘Responsive W’
Tadao Ando for his architectural design that embraces light - the Church of Light became a strong motivation for me to learn Japanese
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Agnès Varda
Ho Tzu Nyen
Meiro Koizumi
Ismaïl Bahri for his sensitivity to light and fragile things
Jon Hopkins and Four Tet for their organic fusion of sounds in electronic music
Claude Monet for his concept for the Musée de l’Orangerie that brings together architecture and art-viewing experiences
FILMS
La Jetée (1962), Sans Soleil (1986) and Sunday in Peking (1956) by Chris Marker
La Mesa / Table Talk (2007) by Yanara Guayasamin
Tango (1981) by Zbigniew Rybczyński
Mommy (2014) and Laurence Anyways (2013) by Xavier Dolan
Manakamana (2013) by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez
Sweetgrass (2009) by Lucien Castaing-Taylor
That Cloud Never Left (2019) by Yashaswini Raghunandan
The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014) by Joshua Oppenheimer
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without Images (2011) by Eric Baudelaire
The Pearl Button (2015) and Nostalgia for the Light (2011) by Patricio Guzmán
The Reflecting Pool (1977-1979) by Bill Viola
As I was Moving Ahead Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) by Jonas Mekas
Beginners (2010) and 20th Century Women (2017) by Mike Mills
Kitchen Stories (2003) by Bent Hamer
Polyfoto (2001) by Daniel Meadows
PHOTOBOOKS
just a man in love by Hiroshi Shiohara（2019, Libro Arte）
Vasantha Yogananthan
Mayumi Hosokura