Umbrella House

Umbrella House is a micro film study of a wood-framed family house built by Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara in 1961. Considered a masterpiece of Shinohara’s First Style, Umbrella House was recently saved from demolition in Tokyo and reconstructed at the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Shot on super 8mm, and with a soundtrack of foley effects recorded at the artists' home in London, the film offers a poetic reading of the project that led Shinohara to declare, A House Is Art.