'In Motion'

With over 200 exits and used by millions of people daily, Tokyo's Shinjuku station is the world's busiest train station. It serves as the rapidly beating heart of the city's commercial districts, and is the main hub through which commuters pour in from across the Kanto plain and beyond every day.

This makes for quite a sense of bustle to the passing observer. 'In Motion', the second in a trilogy of short films about Japan, aims to capture a slight flavour of that sense of rush, busy-ness and movement that characterises much of the capital.

Shot with a Flip UltraHD pocket camera in late 2010 and largely produced in iMovie HD and PowerPoint 2010, the film also makes use of a Creative Commons-licenced song as its soundtrack. The track is called 'Machines and Muscles', an appropriate title for the main factors of motion in the film, and is by a psychedelic drone band from Chicago called Cave. An instrumental number originally featured on the flip side of the 7" single 'Butthash', the song has a certain 'Baba O'Reilly' feel to it which contributes well to the groove of the footage.

For more from me, on Japan and more, visit:

http://www.patesonline.net

'Japan From The Inside: Images and Writing from 2003 - 2008':

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/856331

Shelf Life (Anglo-Japanese rock 'n' roll):

http://www.myspace.com/shelflifetokyo

Cave

http://www.myspace.com/realreelpro

Creative Commons licence:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

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• Dom Pates
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• 東京
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[globalismfilms]

Ta v. much Sarah - delighted to get a comment in this early, with under 10 views...great tune too, eh!

[globalismfilms]

@Rufio80 Thus negating the need for a response to this second comment ;-)

Glad you dug it - quite a fun one to put together! Good to find you on here too...

[Rufio80]

@Rufio80 And I've just noticed why...it's new! Again, good stuff!

Rufus

[Rufio80]

Hey Dom, didn't get a chance to watch this with you when you dropped by the other month, it's fantastic mate. Love it!

[PingsAndNeedles]

absolutely bloomin brilliant Dom ... ! Perfect choice of track too and some really nifty editing.