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Cinema Union -
Saturday, November 9, 2019 - 19:00
Instituto Cervantes -
Sunday, November 10, 2019 - 21:00
Written by:
Nao Yoshigai
Cast:
Hanna Chan
Cinematography:
Koh Terai
Editing:
Nao Yoshigai
Sound:
Masaya Kitada
Music:
Kazuya Matsumoto
Producer:
Shinya Fujiwara
Production:
Whatever Inc.
Humans possess the ability to sympathize with other people through our own bodies’ pseudo-experience of their feelings. This enables us to imagine the joyful mood of a movie character, or share its troubles and pains. In addition to visuals and sound that rouse the viewer’s physical senses, this haptic movie contains elements that convey the protagonist’s emotions and resulting physical changes through vibrations in the chest, stomach and back – arguably the most direct form of sympathetic experience. (NTT InterCommunication Center – ICC)
Director:
NAO YOSHIGAI (b. 1987, Yamaguchi, Japan) is a filmmaker, dancer, and choreographer. After graduating from Japan Women's College of Physical Education (major in Dance Studies), she completed the Graduate School of Film and New Media at Tokyo University of the Arts. She choreographs image and sound for time to focus on "watching and listening" as a motion picture, based on physical sense and phenomena which are unique for living things.
Website:
Contact:
nao.yoshigai@gmail.com
Festivals, awards:
51° Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes Film Festival, 2019/ Palm Springs International ShortFest, USA, 2019
This film is my voice and my flesh, born out of an unknown body named NAO YOSHIGAI, and the spark it caused with all of the events which occurred around it. If my flesh and voice, which will remain as a film, can become a gift for someone, to be metabolized for energy for the next generation, I will be satisfied. We will continue to collect flowers from around the world to send a bouquet for the future. (Nao Yoshigai)