| MA: SPACE/TIME IN THE GARDEN OF RYOAN-JI "MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-Ji" was commissioned by the Program for Art on Film (PAF), a New York organization co-sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Getty Foundation, which produces and distributes films on art. The film was completed as a joint work by Takahiko iimura and Arata Isozaki. The main credits are: directed by Takahiko iimura, text by Arata Isozaki, music by Takehisa Kosugi, and was produced in 16mm film (also a video version), 16min., color. Japanese |
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MA The garden is a medium |
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Breath Swallow this garden Let it swallow you Become one with it |
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Perceive not the objects but the distance between them not the sounds but the pauses they leave unfilled |
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Are the rocks placed on the ground the islands of paradise is the white sand the vast ocean that distances them from this world |
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| Originaly, the word MA was used to define a distance between two points or two sounds. As a result, more importance became attached to the emptiness or silence-the space between-than to a thing or sound itself. This concept of `time equals space` is fundamental to the arts of Japan. Takahiko Iimura and Arata Isozaki | top | ||||||||
A Note for "MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-Ji," Takahiko iimura
"Bringing The Ryoan-Ji To The Screen," Daniel Charles
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□East-West Project produced by professor Peter D'Agostino, Temple University, Philadelphia
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