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Anyone Home is a short digital video by Rosemary Dean. Based in Tokyo, Rosemary’s work merges documentary and a form of visual contemplation. All her videos are largely composed of long static shots of apparently empty spaces. Anyone Home captures the feeling of ‘danchis’ – a type of home developed in Japan in the 60s. As Rosemary wrote as part of her brief to composer Philip Brophy:
“Danchis were the most desired place to live, they represented modern living. The stereotype of the those who moved into a danchi listened to jazz and thought French movies were cool. Now all the danchis are coming down fast. Now people think it's impossible to live in a place so tiny like the danchis and they are all being pulled down. The place I filmed the danchi for my video is a museum which reconstructs in perfect detail a complete danchi apartment. This museum is 1 and a half hours from Tokyo, and it is built on a site where people from the stone age were living over 10,000 years ago. So the museum has old pots and stuff from that time, and then they have the model danchi apartment as one of the first danchis built in Japan. When they built this danchi in this area over 40 years ago it was just countryside by then, so I think they virtually built the danchi over the stone age village without much thought. But now the local government has built a museum to remember the past. They knocked down the danchi and built the museum on the same site as the danchi and the stone age village before it. The bus stop is still called after the danchi.”The score to Anyone Home was released on the CD Filmmusic Vol.2 in 2009.
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