Rock Video: Cherry Blossom

Rock Video: Cherry Blossom

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1986

Runtime

0h 12m

Original Title

Rock Video: Cherry Blossom

Director

Shigeko Kubota

Description

A single-channel version of Kubota's installation of the same name, Rock Video: Cherry Blossom is a lyrical fusion of nature and technology. Branches of pink cherry blossoms etched against a vivid blue sky are the starting point for this sensual visual haiku. Through a fluid application of electronic processing, Kubota layers, digitizes, slows, colorizes and ultimately abstracts the cherry blossoms, creating poetic transmutations of space and image. The mesmerizing and unexpectedly witty confluence of serene blossoms and energetic imaging effects—the transformation of the organic into the electronic—is quintessential Kubota.