Someone's Junk is Someone else's Treasure
Contemporary artist Koki Tanaka sets up a booth at a Los Angeles flea market to sell palm fronds.
Storyline
Contemporary artist Koki Tanaka sets up a booth at a Los Angeles flea market to sell palm fronds. "I tried to bring something very extreme into the flea-market context. I picked the palm fronds because they are the most useless things in California – they’re what we have to sweep away after a windy day. It was an experiment in registering people’s reaction to a fundamental question about the value of objects. And I was referencing two historical pieces: David Hammons’s Bliz-aard Ball Sale [1983], where he sold snowballs during winter in New York; and a Japanese manga called Munou no Hito [A Worthless Person, 1985], in which the protagonist sells stones by the riverside – stones being sold alongside stones. So both shared quite similar ideas." - Koki Tanaka
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Koki Tanaka
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Frequently Asked Questions
Someone's Junk is Someone else's Treasure was released on January 9, 2011.
The runtime of Someone's Junk is Someone else's Treasure is 11m.
Someone's Junk is Someone else's Treasure is a Documentary movie.
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Someone's Junk is Someone else's Treasure was directed by Koki Tanaka.
The main cast of Someone's Junk is Someone else's Treasure includes Koki Tanaka.
Someone's Junk is Someone else's Treasure is originally in English.