Study Drawings for a Film
“Escape into 16-inch Battleship Barrels”
2025
ongoing projectI intend to make a film about the ceremony of Japanese Unconditional Surrender, the September 2, 1945 on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay (now in Pearl Harbor as a museum). I make drawings which are for a storyboard for a film. The film will interweave two parts: actors making a 1/700 scale model of the Missouri, and stop-motion puppetry depicting the actual surrender ceremony. These parts will alternate, shifting between scales with extreme close-ups of the model.
Perhaps model-making serves as escape from heavy history, as the focus on details allows one to temporarily forget the historical significance behind the object. The title refers to the place that is simultaneously one of the safest and most dangerous places to escape, which might be understood as an existence representing both death and life at the same time.