OTHER MEDIA

Albinos/DA BOOK/Christer Järeslätt

A music video collaboration between Christer Järeslätt (photographs) and DA BOOK (music). Music: DA BOOK (Patrik Blomberg Book) Photography: Christer Järeslätt

Making use of the cameras ability to shoot raw-bursts up to 60 frames per sec. Sequences shot in Tokyo. Cut to fit music by DA BOOK.

3:38 min.

Christer Järeslätt talks about his book Hakodate

Swedish, with English subtitles.

4:51 min.

Notes From Vilnius

It is through my sons that I have a connection to Lithuania. Their grandfather fled the country with his parents in 1940 when Molotov and Ribbentrop agreed how to re-draw the map. According to the family history, they had just 48 hours to pack, say goodbye and leave the country. Grandmothers, aunts, uncles and cousins would all eventually disappear as well. Some escaped. Some were deported, interned or shot. My father-in-law Wilhelm and his parents Mauritz and Olga would never return. This scattered family would not reunite.

11:53 min.

Hakodate – a story of depopulation

Hakodate – a story of depopulation, is a documentary about the depopulation of Japan viewed from the rural city of Hakodate on the southern tip of Hokkaido, the northern island of Japan. The town has seen a steady decline in the number of inhabitants since the mid eighties with mostly younger people leaving for Sapporo, Tokyo and other major cities. In only 50 years Hakodate is expected to have lost half of its population and the average age of the inhabitants are increasing at a troubling pace

31:20 min.

Galago – Lost in translation

…and Premiere of Refricater at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo.

After completing Refricater, I exhibited photographs at the Swedish Embassy alongside artists I had portrayed. The show promoted Swedish graphic novelists represented by Galago Förlag. While in Japan, I began experimenting with video, using a small digital camera to document the experience. The resulting footage became three short films.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3