The Magic Piper Found in Ishinomaki

“The Magic Piper Found in Ishinomaki” is a video documentation of a performance that took place in Ishinomaki (Tohoku, Japan), one of the coastal towns 100 km far from the nuclear power station of Fukushima Dai-ichi, destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami in 2011. The performance was realized by a Japanese musician, along the streets of a desert city with a flute found among the ruins.
The work takes as a point of departure the medieval legend of “The Magic Piper of Hamelin”, which narrates about the carnage of the children of Hamelin, killed by the Magic Piper. Within the story, the musician is a metaphor for death and the music for disease.
The video was shot in February 2013, during the residency at Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture, Tokyo Wonder Site (Japan), with the financial support of Project DE. MO./ MOVIN’UP.