Video artist Stuart Ward

Tokyo is the world’s most populous metropolitan city with 35 million people living in an area 50km radius, which equates to more than the entire population of Canada living in an area a little bit smaller than Puerto Rico.

“35 Million Stories” is a short film dedicated to those people.

“There are millions of interacting stories in Tokyo,” explains video artist Stuart Ward. “Filming them all would be impossible, so instead I created a film that focuses on slices of Tokyo life or snippets of the scene in totality.”
Stuart is a video artist from Canada who has made his home in Tokyo. Initially trained in Fine Arts, focusing on painting, he made the jump to digital media in 2000 starting with photography and progressing to video a few years later.

Specializing in live video performance and exhibition, he has performed at fashion events such as Steve Madden’s Shoe Parade and the Salon De Glamorous; at luxury events such as the Peninsula’s Cirque Culinaire for Dom Perignon and is part of the pair of resident Video Artists at Black List Tokyo, an exclusive monthly event, and with DJs at clubs like the venerable Womb in Shibuya.

In describing, “35 Million Stories”, he continues: “I investigated the individual as a part of a greater form, and the greater form being composed of seemingly insignificant pieces. Without the individual, Tokyo would not exist, yet without the greater form, the individual appears purposeless.”

Watch the film: