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of CAHEN Robert
FRANCE, 1997, 00:13:00
Production : ARTE, CAHEN Robert, CICV PIERRE SCHAEFFER, CORNU Alexandre, LES FILMS DU TAMBOUR DE SOIE
Genre : Video art
Keyword : Asia, Body, Landscape, Poetry, Sensuality
Summary :
Here we witness a Japan frozen in time, men and women tied to their land and working, bodies floating in the water of a hot spring. It is one character’s point of view (a painter, inspired by the protagonist in Soseki’s novel Kusamakura) whose remarks freely comment on these images, inciting us to make this same journey in search of a kind of temporary serenity.
A traveller, according to Soseki, is someone who understands that ‘it is difficult to live anywhere, someone who finds inspiration for paintings in reality so that, for him, the act of painting removes all suffering.
Original language : japanese
Technical information : Sound design by Michel Chion
Original format : video
Aspect ratio : 4/3
Chroma : Couleur
Available version(s) : Version originale japonaise sous-titrée en français et version originale sous-titrée en anglais.
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