28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Komorebitatchi
director: Masanori Omori, Sophie Perrier
original title: Komorebitatchi
country: Switzerland, Japan
year: 2014
running time: 14 min.
synopsis
This delicate film, shot in a region with a strong Shinto tradition, tries to capture the Shinto emphasis on man’s harmony with nature. Without explaining, the film depicts rituals associated with the felling and planting of trees, which are seen as living beings. The film gives equal time to human actions, restrained discourse, trees, the wind and the sunlight, which almost mystically always enters the ritual at exactly the right time.DETAIL:
Slowly and gently, he places his right cheek and ear against the stately felled trunk. He closes his eyes and listens. To European eyes, someone with the face of a boy at a dance club has just begun a reverent ceremony that will comfort the body and soul of another being.
biography
Sophie Perrier (1984) graduated in 2008 with a degree in political science from the university in Lausanne, and in 2010 received a degree in European studies in Geneva. She has been studying film at Geneva’s HEAD (Haute École d‘Art et de Design) since 2013. This, her fifth cinematic project, was created in collaboration with Masanori Omori and was influenced by a workshop with renowned Japanese documentarian Naomi Kawase.more about film
director: | Masanori Omori, Sophie Perrier |
producer: | Maëlle-Azur Camus |
script: | Sophie Perrier, Masanori Omori |
photography: | Masanori Omori |
editing: | Sophie Perrier |
sound: | Raphaël Harari |