Kuichisan (35mm)

Kuichisan (2011, 76 min)

with director Maiko Endo
IRL conversation

This portrait of Okinawa, a Japanese island formerly home to an American military base, is conceived as a young boy’s daydream-like wanderings, his attention randomly falling on various objects and events. The film thus represents a bold victory of cinematic intuition over method and order. The combination of 16mm black-and-white camera with color images, a soundtrack disconnected from the images, and the blurring of the boundaries between documentary and fiction make this film an enigmatic but fascinating experience.

Screened on 35mm
CW: contains scenes of animal cruelty

Maiko Endo

Maiko Endo was born in Finland and grew up in Tokyo. A violinist by training, after pursuing filmmaking in New York during the 2000s, she directed her debut film Kuichisan and has been making some films since. Currently she lives in Tokyo working on her next feature.

Festival screenings:

Winner of Best World Documentary at Ji.hlava Film Festival, 2012
CPH:DOX, 2011
LA DI DA Film Festival, 2013

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In partnership with the Japan Foundation.