Sado Island by John Williams Film Screening with Mike Collier’s Paintings

Sado Island Flora 

An Afternoon on Sado Island.

Welsh/Japanese filmmaker John Williams will screen clips from his award-winning documentary, North Cormorant Island, which was shot over ten years in the remote fishing village of Kitaushima on Sado Island, Japan. He will talk about the village, about the history and culture of Sado and his project involving artists working in the area. 
John will read from his cycle of poems inspired by the village.

Artist, Mike Collier, will be with us and talk about a set of art works he is currently making, inspired by his recent trip to Sado 
Mike’s work will be on display in the gallery during the event. You can also see watercolour paintings featuring the village of Kitaushiima by Hazel-Barron Cooper, in the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, through August. 

The event will also include a sake tasting.

About the film:

North Cormorant Island was filmed over ten years (between 2014 and 2024) in the remote fishing village of Kitaushima (which means North Cormorant Island), on Sado Island, Japan. Until the 1960’s the village was only accessible by boat, but a couple of hundred people lived there, rice-farming, fishing and raising cattle. After a road was built, young people began to drift to the cities and now there are less than thirty residents, most of them over seventy years old. The film blends observational documentary, following the everyday life of the village, the rituals, customs and work of the people who live there with a personal, poetic reflection on the director’s childhood in his father’s village in Wales. It is a film about time, place, mortality and human relationships with the land and the sea. 

Venue: Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery