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Festival 2025
I Like Okinawa Sweet
Japan, 2004

Short Form
Directed by
Chikako Yamashiro
Running time
8 mins
Short Form

I Like Okinawa Sweet is a 2004 short video by Chikako Yamashiro, which is part of her ‘Okinawa Tourist’ series. Leaning over a fence of a U.S. military base, the artist herself indulges in an ice cream cone someone gave her. The performance critiques the increasingly homogenised ‘pop’ touristic image of the artist’s homeland in Okinawa.

 


Tickets


11 May 2025, 5:45 PM
Barbican Centre 
Director Bio



Chikako Yamashiro (born 1976) is a Japanese filmmaker and video artist. She works across photography, video, and performance to create visual investigations into the history, politics and culture of her homeland Okinawa.

Programme Information



Screening as part of Floating Between Frontiers + Q&A