Interview with Sébastien Heurt... I totally agree. It is a standard of practice upon which we should all measure ourselves before even claiming to be able to teach others.More... By GuillaumeErard
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Whenever I go somewhere in Japan, even for the most mundane reason, I always take my camera and document my trip. This section contains videos I shot during my trips in Japan. In most of these, the background music was composed and performed by myself.
This short series of humoristic instructional videos about Japanese customs was written and directed in 2001 by Namikibashi, a comedy duo composed of Kentaro Kobayashi and Junji Kojima, and produced by the Japanese Culture Lab. The concept is to explain in each sort film one particular aspect of the Japanese culture that can be obscure to foreigners but this is done in a humoristic, often exaggerated way.
Besides being the fifth most powerful earthquake in the world overall since modern record-keeping began in 1900 with its magnitude of 9.0, the undersea megathrust earthquake that hit the Pacific coast of Tohoku in Japan on Friday 11th March 2011 is by far the most well documented in history. The data is still coming in but the body of evidence that is already available has allowed the making of very interesting documentaries. I would like to present two of these that were made respectively by the BBC and Channel 4. I use them regularly in my teaching of earth dynamic and thought they might be of interest to you.
Back in 2004, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) aired a three-parts documentary on the history of Japan's opening to the outside world and subsequent closing under the Tokugawa rule until the re-opeining of the country under the pressure of Commodore Matthew Perry and his Black Ships. The series, called Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire is narrated by the main actor of the series Shogun, Richard Chamberlain. It is a fantastic attempt at bringing to life this ancient story and it is very entertaining in addition to be quite informative.
Tokyo is really the place where everything happens. The sheer size of the city and its effervescence make it a very fertile ground for encounters and experiences. I had not been living in the Japanese capital for more than a month when I got offered the chance to write the music for a forthcoming film directed by a promising independent film-maker from Australia, Rionne McAvoy. He had just finished shooting his film and was looking for someone to write the soundtrack. On my side, I had been off music for a while and I was craving for some new projects to come my way.
