This festival will exhibit a variety of photographic and video works from a documentary perspective and will reconsider the relationship between words and images through the theme of ‘document/documentary’. It will introduce a diverse range of works from the Tokyo Museum Collection, including works by William Henry Fox TALBOT, FUJIHATA Masaki, SUGIMOTO Hiroshi and others from Japan and overseas.

Artists to be exhibited.

Julia Margaret CAMERON（1815-1879）
FUJIHATA Masaki（1955-）
FURUKAWA Taku（1941-）
SUGIMOTO Hiroshi（1948-）
William Henry Fox TALBOT（1800-1877）
Andy WARHOL（1928-1987）

Tokyo Smart Culture Project

Organized by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, the Tokyo Smart Culture Project seeks to digitize, record, and preserve artworks in the collections of the TMG’s cultural facilities as well as exhibitions and performances held at these facilities, and to make these cultural resources available in a variety of forms.

As part of the project, the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo have since 2023 been working to transfer and convert works in their collections that use time-based media, including film, video, slides, audio, and computers, to media more suitable for long-term preservation.

The number of collected works that require maintenance or migration due to the passage of time has been increasing in recent years, necessitating consideration of how to store and display such works in the future. The project aims to address the issue of preserving and restoring collected works involving time-based media, and to pass these works on to future generations by making them widely available to the public.

Works Subject to the Project at the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2025

Exhibition
Furukawa Taku: Nickelodeon Movie Theater, 1988
Fujihata Masaki: Beyond Pages, 1995–1997

Screening
Japanese Post-Documentary, Program 3: Nihon University Film Study Club Special
Nihon University Film Study Club: Conversation between Nail and Sock, 1958
Nihon University Film Study Club: Document N, 1959
Nihon University Film Study Club: PuPu, 1960
Nihon University New Film Study Club: Bowl, 1961