A TV commercial for “Mamo Rail,” a child monitoring service that sends notifications whenever a child passes through a station ticket gate. The service’s key feature is that it uses train stations as checkpoints, allowing parents to watch over their children naturally as part of everyday life without feeling burdened, turning “anxiety” into “peace of mind.” The sense of reassurance provided by the service is conveyed through song and animation. It also depicts the chaos faced by modern moms trying to balance work and family, as well as the growth and sense of fulfillment they discover through parenting. The song is performed by Humbert Humbert, and the illustrations are by RoooLou.

“Turning Images_ Special Feature” Tomoko Ito / Mitsuru Tokisato January 16 (Tue) – February 18 (Sun), 2018 K-honya honkbooks honkbooks.com/ - Appearing in the “Turning Images” series are books and the hands that turn their pages. To read a book, we turn its pages with our own hands, yet the hands that should come into view remain outside our awareness, apart from the text in the book. The hands that appear in this series’ videos are the forces that control books already printed with text. The turning of pages and the flow of the video: these two temporalities are out of sync. Text, books, hands turning pages, video. It is the viewers who connect them, and who separate them. What appears on the display is a single layered surface, with all of them still undifferentiated. -

During the Sengoku period, many lives were lost. The castle’s designer sees the potential of the tea room as a place where samurai can regain their humanity. Trailer: https://youtu.be/xTG46yzCzN8?si=o2v30hySg1aympqE