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The small shops in the typical Tokyo neighborhood of Omiya line Omiya Hachiman dori, the main street which leads to a 9th century Shinto shrine. From tofu makers, dry cleaners, hairdressers, to tatami-mat makers, the intimate portraits of these shops and their owners meditate on quotidian tasks, and the environment in which they?re performed.

Aily Nash (b. 1984 in Tokyo, Japan) is a curator, writer, and filmmaker. She received her BA from Bard College where she studied Film and Electronic Arts, and Literature. Her curated programs have screened in venues including MoMA PS1 (NYC), FACT (Liverpool), BAM/Brooklyn Academy of Music (NYC), Anthology Film Archives (NYC), in Light Cone`s Scratch Expanded (Paris), Northwest Film Center (Portland), Image Forum (Tokyo), Echo Park Film Center (L.A.), Art Cinema OFFoff (Ghent), and others. Her writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Artforum.com, Film Comment, Kaleidoscope, de Filmkrant and elsewhere. She curates films at Basilica Hudson, and is an editor of a film criticism program at the Berlinale. She is based in Hudson and Brooklyn, NY.