Sound Recordist
A profile of the controversial novelist Mitsuharu Inoue, filmed during the last years of his life.
Sound
'극사적 에로스' 등의 작품을 통해 충격적인 영상으로 주목 받은 하라 카즈오 감독의 다큐멘터리. 천황에게 빠징코 구슬을 발사하는 등 과격한 수단을 동원해 전쟁책임을 추궁해 나가는 아나키스트 오쿠자키 켄조라는 인물의 행보를 추적한 작품. 2차 대전 당시 뉴기니전선 병사들 사이에 일어난 식인사건에 대한 의혹을, 당시 군인들을 찾아다니며 집요하게 추궁하여 증언을 듣는 등 무서울 정도의 집념으로 진상을 밝혀가는 과정이 이 다큐멘터리의 중심이다. 전쟁이 끝났음에도 불법으로 자행되었던 사살사건에 대해서도 당시 사살 집행자들을 찾아다니며 추궁하는 장면이 긴박감 넘치는 영상과 함께 강렬한 여운을 남긴다. 평화로운 일상의 틈을 비집고 들어가 찍는 행위 자체가 뜻밖의 진실을 발굴하는 무기가 된다는 사실을 다시 일깨우는 수작.
(한국시네마테크)
Music
“I have three tasks in my life: to dance, to teach dance, and to create dance,” says the pioneering Japanese performer Akiko Kanda in this intimate portrait of creativity and individuality, After seeing a Martha Graham performance in college, Kanda left her family behind in Japan and arrived in New York City, where she studied under the legendary Graham and became a principal dancer with the troupe. Following the wiry artist as she moves from practice floor to performance hall, and from the cramped single-room apartment she lives in to a trip home to see her aging mother, director Sumiko Haneda reveals a woman who has rebelled against traditional ideals of marriage and motherhood, and who nearly single-handedly brought modern dance to Japan-and kept it alive. “When I die,” Kanda tells the director, “I will be content if I can just say, ‘I danced.'”
Sound Assistant
After the waning of the protests in Sanrizuka, Ogawa Pro started questioning the future of the collective and looking for other subjects to film. Following the method developed in the previous films, the filmmakers moved to the slum of Kotobuchi in the port city of Yokohama, where more than 6000 people were struggling to get by without any means of survival, exposed to industrial accidents and diseases. The result is one of the most moving films produced by the collective, a series of beautifully filmed portraits, voicing the silenced stories and songs of a group of people living in this community. Credit: ICA London
