Shinjuku Station

The Shinjuku district was the epicentre of Tokyos art scene and the political fever pitch where protests took place on a regular basis during the 1960s Jonouchis compilation footage of the area defies documentary imagery and transforms itself into something altogether more poetically subjective attempting to capture the chaos of the location through his camerawork and editing In 1974 Jonouchi projected images of the past onto himself whilst reciting Dadainfluenced and virtually inaudible poetry generating a cacophony of images and sounds drawing from and participating in the maelstrom of political and artistic expression during the era