Haiku (for Onizuka) 2007

16mm, 2 min
Silent

A haiku film memorial. On January 28, 1986 the Challenger Mission 51-dash- L set out to observe Halleys Comet from space but exploded 78 seconds into the launch killing everyone on board. A monument to the Japanese-American astronaut Ellison J Onizuka stands in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo, from which I made three graphite rubbings onto paper. I later filmed the rubbings to emphasize the haiku structure.