Nihon Notes - Miyabi
A video essay with unpremeditated clips gathered from a solo winter journey.
This is the first installment of a planned series “Nihon Notes” there has been no second installment yet.
This is one of the few videos I recorded a voiceover for, pre-transition.
Shot on: ancient canon t3i on stock lens + galaxy j7 pro
No color correction
Stills
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Nihon Notes is a series of video essays exploring the Japanese ideals that make the nation peculiar in its own regard. In this first installment I study perhaps the most punctuating characteristic, Miyabi.