VOICE OF EARTHDocumentary
We go and listen to the voice of the Earth.
VOICE OF EARTH raises the questions we must face with the future in view. It is a series that asks what we will pass on, like a baton, to the generations to come.
Watch on YouTubeSeason 1
Monozukuri
The craft of making things
Leftover fabric. Uniforms that have run their last race. Costumes that have left the stage. Five people ask materials that were headed for disposal what they could become, and work with craftspeople to make it real. Five episodes, in Japanese.
Latest — EP4
Model Hiroko Hatano makes her first garment of her own, from fabric left sleeping in storage
20 min
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EP1 — 24 min
Shinnosuke Abe
A tuxedo from fabric that was headed for the bin
EP2 — 25 min
Miho Takagi
Japan national team wear, remade as an everyday companion
EP3 — 24 min
Nana Takagi
Japan national team wear, carried on her back once more
EP4 — 20 min
Hiroko Hatano
Her first garment of her own, from fabric left in storage
EP5 — Coming Soon
Kentaro Yasui
Facing the costumes that have left the stage
On the floor
The Makers
Tsuyama and Kojima in Okayama, Toyooka in Hyogo. The materials the five brought in are unpicked, cut and sewn again in the workshops where Japan makes things.
“We have all this leftover fabric, after all.”
Shinnosuke Abe — EP1
Order
10.15THU
Orders open for the products
A tuxedo, a pea coat, a knapsack, a drink holder and more. The products born in the series are made to order, in limited numbers, at the SUBJECT. official online store.
Subject. Online StoreExhibition
10.6–18
VOICE OF EARTH Exhibition
Works born from the ideas of the five, shown with their stories and film. Through Sunday, October 18.
TOWER GALLERY, Foot Town 3F, Tokyo Tower
4-2-8 Shibakoen, Minato-ku, Tokyo
In development
Coming Next
The theme changes with each season. Three issues we face next.
Wildlife
Wildlife control
As wild animal numbers grow, how should people live alongside them?
Rescue
Rescue cats and dogs
Who is taking in the lives that have nowhere to go?
Craft
Vanishing traditional crafts
Where does a skill go when no one is left to inherit it?
Colophon
About
VOICE OF EARTH is a documentary series from Japan that raises the questions we must face with the future in view. With guests from many fields, it asks what we will pass on, like a baton, to the generations to come. It is released on the VOICE OF EARTH channel on YouTube.
Season 1 was made in collaboration with SUBJECT., a brand that takes materials that have served their purpose and has craftspeople remake them into new products.
Director & Producer
Masanaka Sakao
Founder of SUBJECT. and TATRAS
Instagram @masanaka_s- Season 1 Cast
- Shinnosuke Abe, Miho Takagi, Nana Takagi, Hiroko Hatano, Kentaro Yasui
- In collaboration with
- SUBJECT.
Official site & online store: subject-creation.com
Instagram @subject.official_ - Contact
- SEEKER CREATIVE STUDIO Inc.
sakao@seeker-creative.co.jp