The Making Movie Under the establishment of the stage in the near future Tokyo, the staff set out for location hunting to shoot scenery and places that are expected to exist in 2030. They chose the locations of the Metropolitan Highways which was also used in Tarcovsky's "Solaris" as a location in the future, the underground parking lot of Shibuya ward, high-rise housing developments near HanedaAirport, the yakitori stalls, a Japanese restaurant in Ueno, and a strip hall at Kabuki-cho in Shinjuku. Besides these places, they used the elevator among other things at the sets at the Studio Mao in Yokohama. This making of clip is made from the scenery shot in this studio. Kamoto Tetsuya, the director of photography, mainly used the mini digital video camera for household use, the CANNON XL 1. Making use of his experiences as a photographer for music videos, he used elaborate lighting techniques in this studio to make it seem as though it was shot with 35mm film camera. Sasaki Hisashi, the director of production design, created many artistic sets like the interior of elevator and the room of patch boards. The pink balloon made by Fujiwara Takahiro and the rope braided by Akechi Denki were beautifully used in the set which Sasaki has created. After 3 weeks of shootings outside and inside the studio and over half a year in post-production, "I.K.U." was finally completed in July 2000. Interview with Shu Lea Cheang