The 45 minute film Cloud Island (2010) depicts the small island of Inujima which is located in Japan’s Seto Inland Sea. Inujima is in many ways exemplary of Japan’s last 400 years of industrialization. Once an island of fishermen and farmers, Inujima then became a place of granite quarries and copper refineries. Now all the works stand empty; the quarries filled with water, factory chimneys crumbling. The island’s aged population has dwindled to around fifty people who continue their day-to-day lives in this evocative and rather neglected place where clipped trees and well tended allotments stand next to abandoned homes
Duration | 17 September 2010 - 29 October 2010 |
Times | Tue-Fri 10-6, Sat 11-5 |
Cost | Free |
Venue | Frith Street Gallery |
Address | 17-18 Golden Square London W1F 9JJ, , |
Contact | / / www.frithstreetgallery.com |