About Kyojima, Values, Shopping mall –Tokyo, Kyojima, 2000.

1."About Kyojima", duration 37 min, projection on screen/cloth, active loudspeakers.

2. "Values", duration 54 min, 23” TV monitor, ear phones.

3. "Shopping mall", duration 24 min, projection on screen.

Directed and edited by Minna Heikinaho, filming by Mikael Vallgren, format: DVcam, NTSC.

I worked together with local residents and a group of students in Kyojima, in Sumida, Tokyo. The video is comprised of two parts, the first describes place itself Kyojima, a tiny, old traditional part of Tokyo where we were working for well over three weeks. The second part of the video is comprised of video interviews with local residents of different ages answering very general kinds of questions about the place: "What is special about Kyojima, what do you like or not like in Kyojima, how long have you lived in Kyojima, do you miss the past times, what do you think about the future of Kyojima, what kinds of changes would you like to take place in Kyojima, what kind of people live in Kyojima ?” And some more personal questions: "What does religion mean to you? How about work, love, death? How do you survive difficulties in your life, what is the most important thing in your life ?"

The work was presented as three videos; Kyojima as a place/a physical area was shown on a/the shopping street, projection on screen/cloth. Interviews in a shopping area by the shopping street, and the more personal interviews in a TV monitor on ear phones, and the interviews dealing with local issues were presented as a video projection, audible in the exhibition space/venue itself without accessories.