Mud Man (2017)
Single-channel video installation | DV | Colour and Sound | 26 min

In Chikako Yamashiro’s Mud Man, a slumbering community is awakened by bird droppings that resemble clumps of mud falling from the sky. Voices speaking of history, nature and other communities emanate from the fallen clumps, evoking an analogy between flesh and earth, engaging the political experiences of Okinawa and Jeju islands, where the film is set, and the half-buried traumas of colonisation.