Austin is a journey through a young man’s private landscape. He does not appear on screen but through his soundscapes, leading the audience through his home, exploring the space of his domesticity.

The work is inspired by the artist's bereaved brother. She created a character based on her brother, replacing the scene from Japan to the UK, and created the work by looking at the traces of human presence through the still life, recalling the space of the house where he spent his last hours.

ある人物の私的空間とサウンドスケープを通して、人間の存在をその不在からみつめる瞑想的作品。

人物は最後まで画面に姿を現さず、住居空間にある痕跡だけがその人物の存在を物語る。

『Austin』は作者の死別した兄がモチーフとなっている。作者は場面を日本からイギリスに代え

兄をベースにしたキャラクターを作り、彼が最後の時間を過ごした家の空間に想いを馳せながら、

静物を通して人がいた痕跡を見つめて制作した。

Director, Producer, Editor - Chiemi Shimada

Producers at Kingston University - Richard Squires and Phillip Warnell

Cinematographer - Vron Harris

Voice-over: Lucas Jones

Colourist, Dubbing Mixer - Kwame Lestrade

Assistant Directors - Leah Morris and Siân Ayerst-Dyer

Sound Recordists - Andrew Pickering-Copley and Siân Ayerst-Dyer

Commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Arts and Kingston University for Channel 4

Exhibitions & Screenings

2024

Analogue Short Film Screening: BIPOC Folks Vol 2, not/nowhere, London, UK

2022

Film Free and Easy, Primary, Nottingham, UK

2020

Form No Form (streaming)

2019

Place M Film Festival, Tokyo, JP

2018

Playback Festival at ICA, London, UK

2016

Stop Play Record screenings at ICA, London, UK