Programs
Performing Hiroshima
Made in Japan
Introduction
Japan / 2023 / 133 min
Director：MIMA Akihiro, YAMADA Saki, KUSANO Natsuka, ENDO Mikihiro
A woman who lives with her partner in an apartment in Hiroshima City regularly meets her friend at the riverside to co-write poems together in MIMA Akihiro’s “A WINDOW WITH NO NANE” A woman exposed to in utero radiation about one kilometer from the epicenter of where the atomic bomb was dropped speaks into the camera as herself, her mother, and the narrator of someone else’s life in YAMADA Saki's “Represent HIROSHIMA with Hiroe” KUSANO Natsuka's “Till The End Of The Dream” depicts the daily life of a woman struggling with the loss of someone close to her. Finally, ENDO Mikihiro's “No matter where” takes up a theater group rehearsing plays about Hiroshima and a young member of their sound crew collecting sounds outdoors. An anthology of short films about Hiroshima, target of the atomic bomb, produced by the theater company Marebito no Kai as part of a larger project also including two earlier installments entitled “Performing Nagasaki” (2013-16) and “Performing Fukushima” (2016-18).
Director：MIMA Akihiro
Born in Kyoto, 1985. Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design (now Kyoto University of the Arts), Department of Film and Performing Arts. His mid-length graduation film, “Lost Bones,” won an Award for Excellence at the Image Forum Festival. He completed his degree in directing at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2012. His graduate project was his first feature film, “Utopia Sounds,” and he completed his second feature film “I Am a Weapon” in 2016. He participated in the Marebito Theater Company as an actor in “Performing Fukushima” (2018).
Director：YAMADA Saki
Born in Tokyo, 1980. Graduated from the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. Has worked as a freelance videographer and dance dramaturg since 2008 and participated in the Marebito Theater Company since 2014. She has been working since 2016 on the use and branding of gardens in Kyoto that are designated Cultural Properties by the government. She has received the Japanese Institute of Landscape Architecture Award for Business Management and the Good Design Award. Since 2022 she has overseen public relations and branding at a renewable energy company, and she moved to Tono City, Iwa Prefecture in 2023. One of her recent video works in "Gardens in Dialogue"
Director：KUSANO Natsuka
Born in Yamato City, Kanagawa Prefecture, 1985. Upon graduating from the Department of Creative Writing, Faculty of Letters, Tokai University, she made her feature film debut in 2014 with “Antonym.” Her second feature, “Domains,” screened at festivals including the Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, and was selected by the British Film Institute as the best Japanese film of 2019 in its list “The best Japanese film of every year—from 1925 to now.” She continues to attract attention as a promising new talent.
Director：ENDO Mikihiro
Born in Mie Prefecture, 1985. Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design (now Kyoto University of the Arts), Department of Film and Performing Arts. He received a degree in directing from the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. His feature film “Friendship” (2013), his graduation project at the same school, has shown at numerous festivals both in Japan and abroad. His films include “Jeanne’s Voice” (2014) and “Embers” (2017).
Schedule
11/19（Sun）18:30 -
Human Trust Cinema Yurakucho