JEONJU Intl. Film Festival

Cinephile JEONJU

Film Fetish

KANEKO Yu

Japan 2023 66min DCP Color/B&W Documentary GAsian Premiere

Schedule

Code	Date	Time	Theater	Info	Ticket
236	2023. 04. 29	14:00	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 9	HKEG	Ticket Wish
339	2023. 04. 30	13:30	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 10	HKEGGV	Ticket Wish
452	2023. 05. 01	17:30	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 10	HKEGGV	Ticket Wish

Overview

Legendary experimental filmmaker Okuyama Junichi is a pioneer of constructive cinema. He has been obsessed with the particular beauty of analog films, especially small formats. He has enjoyed exploring its potential since debuting in 1964 with the 8mm exercise MU. Kaneko Yu followed Okuyama's work and his life.

Review

The disappearance of film material, both at the time of filming and projection, proposes one of the great questions when thinking about the future of cinema. Will the time come when film formats and projections disappear from the cinematographic universe? We don't know the answer, but it is certain that those in charge of keeping the film material alive for longer will be the experimental and avant-garde film directors. Authors still keep formats such as 16mm and 8mm as the original material of their art. Like the Japanese director Okuyama Jun'ichi, who tirelessly from the beginning of his career used the materiality of film as one of the central elements of his art. Director KANEKO Yu's documentary takes us through the life and unique art of Okuyama Jun'ichi, and in doing so, tells us about the last days of an endangered art. (Sung MOON)

CREDIT

DirectorKANEKO Yu
ProducerUEYAMA Emi, MOCHIZUKI Yukie

CinematographyKANEKO Yu
EditorMOCHIZUKI Yukie

CastOKUYAMA Junichi

FILM SOURCE

ARTicle Films ㅣ emi@articlefilms.com

DIRECTOR

KANEKO Yu

Born in 1974, Saitama, Japan. A writer, film critic, and filmmaker One of his major works is Mlabri in the Woods (2019) which was screened at the Cambodia IFF. His latest film Film Fetish (2023) had its world premiere at the IFF Rotterdam.

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