BUTŌ: THE RECURRING TORMENTS OF THE PUGILIST

舞踏 「拳闘家の艱難」

 

FILM

 
 

BUTŌ seeks to capture the intensity of the human body in motion, the lithe bodies of dancers Max Cookward and Paul Scott-Bullen colliding against the dense and forceful power of boxer Andrew Downer.  Playing with the shadow and the light, ghostly movements and eerie dance, BUTŌ delves into the feverish dreams of a tormented fighter. 

Inspired by the traditional Butoh of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, Eikoh Hosoe’s iconic portraits of Mishima in Barakei, William Klein’s Tokyo 1961 Butoh photographs and Shūji Terayama’s Boxer, BUTŌ is a homage to the Japanese avant-garde.

Best Experimental Film Award @Brighton Rocks Film Festival, UK, 2022

PHOTOBOOK
COLLECTOR’S EDITION x FILM

Limited edition of 50, hand numbered and signed.
Includes an exclusive USB card of the 15 minute BUTŌ film.

Format: 100 pages, A3 (29,7 x 42 cm), 1.5 kg, hardcover.
Embossed hardcover on Winter & Co’s Corvon Mano Red latex paper.
Binding by Masters Bookbinding in the UK.

Published by Lone Gentlemen Publishing.
ISBN: 978-2-9565399-6-4

PLATINUM / PALLADIUM PRINTS

Platinum-Palladium prints, 24 x 32 cm.
Limited edition of 5, hand-numbered and signed.
70% platinum / 30% palladium. Ammonium oxalate and iron nitrate sensitiser.

Platinum-palladium prints, also called platinotypes, are photographic prints made by a monochrome printing process involving platinum. Platinum prints are the most durable of all photographic processes. The platinum group metals are very stable against chemical reactions that might degrade the print—even more stable than gold. It is estimated that a platinum image, properly made, can last thousands of years.

Unlike the silver print process, platinum lies on the paper surface, while silver lies in a gelatin or albumen emulsion that coats the paper. As a result, since no gelatin emulsion is used, the final platinum image is absolutely matte with a deposit of platinum (and/or palladium, its sister element which is also used in most platinum photographs) absorbed slightly into the paper.

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