Synopsis

One hundred years have passed since local residents, hoping to welcome the Hokkai No. 1, prepared the land with their own hands. “My Airport” is an animated documentary that layer's frames created in a participatory community workshop over documentary footage capturing the skies and airport of present-day Chitose City, where aircraft come and go. The efforts of those who once created a place to welcome an aircraft are carried forward through the brushstrokes of participants drawing time by hand, frame by frame. Those departing, those seeing them off, and those passing through for countless reasons—the memories intersecting in this place converge in the next frame. What memories will remain in the airport of the future?

PROFILE

OSHIMA Keitaro

OSHIMA Keitaro completed the master’s program in Subject Education at the Graduate School of Education, Hokkaido University of Education, in 2004, earning a Master of Education degree. In 2012, he was a research fellow at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Based in Sapporo, he currently teaches at Hokkaido Information University. His practice centers on “the deconstruction and reconstruction of moving-image structures,” encompassing both the creation of moving-image works and research into modes of expression. In 2024, “MY SCHOOL” received the Promotional Prize of the Children’s Jury at the 70th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.