Kyoko Inatome, Japanese artist in Amsterdam

The One Minutes Foundation started out in 1998 collecting videos of exactly 60 seconds. Initially small but soon growing bigger the works were screened on television and exhibitions world-wide. Annually the best videos were selected in an awards ceremony at the famous venue ‘Paradiso’ in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. My video ‘public space 2_street 1′ was nominated for The One Minutes awards in category Azia in 2006 so I was invited for the awards celemony at Paradiso. Every year the style of the celemony is different and funny and this year they made talk show style settings on the stage. Hosted by Kuno Terwindt nominated videos were shown on giant screens and a jury from each category tells on the stage who the winner is. The winner comes up to the stage and receive a super-heavy monkey trophy and 600 euro, and also gets ‘one minute fame’ ; 60 second time and music and close ups on the screens….
I have received a DVD of ‘The One Minute Talk Show’ the other day so I will upload it some day. There you can see what I did for the ‘one minute fame’ on the video.

Albert Wulffers wrote about “public space1_street2″

Film can be reborn
Japanese tulips for a masterwork

Albert Wulffers saw a movie of one minute on 19th November 2006, which he thought was ‘a kind of dance movie’. It was love at first sight and made him reflect on all kinds of other things. ‘With such an actress you would almost want to invent a movie, especially since that movie would only have to concern her.’
By Albert Wulffers

Public Space1_street2 is not exactly a title which would make me hurry immediately and irresistibly towards the cinema. Not even when I know all too well that it could turn out better than expected because the movie in question is not supposed to last longer than one minute. Had they told me beforehand that it would appear to be a ‘kind of dance movie’, my mind would have been made up: I would have stayed at home or have gone to the pub.
‘Veel weten kan altijd niet vordren zomtijds schaden,’ Joost van den Vondel already said. And since 19th November 2006 I can but fully endorse that wisdom. What began as a blind date with a movie with that – up to then unknown to me – impossibly boring, little promising title, turned out to be love at first sight. For instead of making yet another statement on public space, I saw cinema getting reborn again in a miraculous combination of an objective direction in the style of the brothers Lumière on the one hand, and the playful jugging in the style of Georges Méliès on the other. You could put forward all kinds of theories on the (in this case backwards) return to the roots or rather to re-invent them; or you could say that there is so little technique necessary to make the impossible possible; or you could even say certain things about the multicultural society.
But let me, for Heaven’s sake, not slip back in trying to hold on to certain theories or hide myself behind factual knowledge, I just have to frankly admit that I would love to tumble on the street with Kyoko Inatome.
What a brilliant direction of the figurants, what a flash of inspiration from the set dresser to place those Christmas trees alongside the road and what a refined colour combination in the costume of the protagonist! This can’t be just a mere coincidence. Furthermore, the elegance and flexibility that the leading actress possesses! And her charisma! With such an attractive actress you would almost want to invent a movie, especially since it would not have to concern itself with anything else.
For the time being I would like to shower Kyoko Inatome with flowers. With two bunches of tulips at 4.50 euro a piece, as seen for sale in her movie, the damage would not be too bad. And what again is the name of that movie? It slipped my mind entirely within just a couple of seconds.

Video
top: “Der Erlkonig” 2004 nominated for a category “miracle and science”
middle:”public space1_street2″ performer: Makiko Ito from Magpie Music Dance Company
down:The one minutes talk show 2006 at Paradiso Amsterdam