Filmed at a kaiten (conveyor belt) sushi restaurant in Tokyo Japan, "Sushibelt" is a tightly framed view of the sushi counter. The camera stays fixed as trays of sushi and plates glide past in rhythm, while only fragments of the chefs’ bodies and hands appear—placing, adjusting, disappearing.
The video loops into a kind of meditation. Movement without interruption. Labor without face. Food as product, time as loop.
On the surface, it’s beautiful—precise, calming, logical. But it’s also deeply surreal. A quiet reflection on the extreme efficiencies embedded in Japanese culture, and the strange alienation that can come with it. It makes perfect sense. And no sense at all.
"Sushibelt" questions the systems we build in the name of progress—and what gets lost or created in their perfection.
Sushibelt
2010
Video with audio
01:00 minute loop
Part of Japan series
