The story begins with Sho cleaning out the remaining belongings of his recently deceased aunt Matsuko. Sho gradually learns many details of his aunt's life, and it is through his investigations that the audience learns the story of Matsuko's past.
In the early 1970s, Matsuko was a popular school teacher. However, when one of her students (Ryu) committed a theft, and Matsuko took the blame for him, this had terrible consequences for her life.
The film also reveals some details of Matsuko's earlier life, including troubled childhood, when she struggled to gain the attention of her father. Matsuko's father's affection was mostly dominated by her chronically ill sister, which created an imbalanced rivalry where Matsuko's needs were less likely to be met.
Matsuko's relationships with men were generally troubled as well. She moved from relationship to relationship with men who gave her some inkling of affection, though it was often accompanied by abuse. She often found herself abandoned by the men she loved, who couldn't cope with her neediness. She continued to pursue her dreams of perfect love, even as her life spiraled down, and she found herself working as a prostitute, and even imprisoned.
When Matsuko met later in life with Ryu, whom she saved from the charges relating to his theft, she found that he held affection and admiration for her. She saw in him another chance for true love. But Ryu, by this time, was deeply entrenched in a criminal life. He decided that it would be best for him to disappear from her life, to protect her from the risks of life with a gangster. This final abandonment was disastrous for Matsuko, who never knew to what extent she impacted the lives of the men who loved her.
"Drawing Motion" Experimental Generation from Johnny Wilson on Vimeo.
Experimental Generation - A 30 [or so....] animation piece that continues to evolve through drawing. The visual and audio language continues to provoke an idea that unfolds impressionable emotion.
Mark Hayward’s work explores physical motion. Whether through animation or drawing, it’s ‘actions’ that interest him and how they adapt and respond to one another to create movement and narratives.
Acts of war and aggression feature recurrently in Hayward’s work, and individual actions naturally expand into group activity; as groups mobilise, individual characters seem to find themselves not just under the control of the groups that they move in but also of the actions that they partake in, actions that Hayward subjects them to.
Hayward was born in Portsmouth in 1979. He graduated from UCA Canterbury, Kent, where he received a BA in Fine Art in 2007 and then went on to complete an MA in Fine Art Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, London, were he received the Tim and Belinda Mara Award.
In 2009 his work was selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize, which will be opening in London September 2009 and touring the UK until April 2010. He has shown his work in a number of exhibitions including
Show One, at the Royal College of Art,The London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy of Arts, and New Cross Project Space, London. He currently lives in Ken
