ABOUT
「本当の旅の発見は新しい風景をみることではなく、新しい目をもつことにある。」 by マルセル・プルースト
"Le seul veritable voyage n'est pas d'aller vers d'autres pays mais d'avoir d'autres yeux."
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
---Marcel Proust (1871-1922)
Wondering what a voyage mean to a human being. There are thousands of quotes about voyages by pioneers. Many of them found a voyage similar to a life. Voyage deeply relates to words like discovery, expedition and future. One Minute Journey is a website which offers you to view beautiful pictures and movies from all around the world shot and edited by a traveling filmmaker, Ryosei Suzuki. Along his round-the-world trip, he has taken by himself an enormous amount of photographs and video footages which expose the real view of the world. The one minute you see on the website, is carefully selected and edited from the archive. Just in one minute, they will take you to a journey. Just in one minute, you will find yourself a new person.
Ryosei Suzuki - Traveller, Film Maker, Photographer
Born in 1979 in Nagoya. An actor-turn-director. After working at a film production company, he moved to Canada and started directing music videos and movies, while dealing with technicals at the same time. In 2008, he moved back to Japan and started working at DRAWING AND MANUAL. With a wide variety of film production experience on both directing and technical sides, he has been involved in directing , shooting and editing a large number of production. Since 2012, he started his long time dream of round-the-world trip with his wife. And in 2014, his first video DVD/Blu-Ray album “World Time-Lapse”(KADOKAWA/DRAWING AND MANUAL) was released. Many of his visual works are presented at the world video collection site, “1 Minute Journey”. Also his website, “Tabisuru-Suzuki” was selected as one of the official recommended works in the entertainment category of Japan Media Arts Festival 2014. He continues on his round-the-world trip as a traveling filmmaker while writing columns on the Mercedes-Benz website “mb!” and the magazine “MacFan”.
Itaru Horikawa (base guiter), Kanade Kageyama (guiter), Yu Kawakami (Piano & Drums), Hiraku Yamamoto (Violin)