Synchronized Drops
- 2012
- Space Shower TV
JKD Collective produced a 60s station ID for Japan’s largest music channel, Space Shower TV. In this piece, gravity-defying streams of water flow through air while the dancer’s movement synchronizes with the music as if she’s floating through time. An experimental technique set the camera’s frame rate in synch with the low-frequency waves of the speaker which the water flowed from, enabling the unique optical illusion of vibrating droplets appearing to freeze in mid-air, or even flow backwards.
Shot without the use of a high-speed camera, computer graphics, reversed footage, or other kinds of post processing, the effects are all in camera. This first film work produced by JKD was directed by Kosai Sekine, an award-winning Japanese director, and features contemporary dancer Masako Yasumoto.
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- Director
- Kosai Sekine
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- Director of Photography
- Naoki Noda
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- Production Designer
- Tateo Yanagimachi
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- Producers
- Bruce Ikeda
- Toshiyuki Takei
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- Production Manager
- Yosuke Maguchi
- Kazuma Kitada
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- Cast
- Masako Yasumoto
- Shimon Kato
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- Editor
- Tomohiro Suzuki
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- Audio Mixer
- Akihiro Morita
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- Special Effects
- GIVS
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- Music
- Jemapur
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- Production Company
- JKD Collective
- Taiyo Kikaku