Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus
Hybrid noir showing in moving collages the hunt for a man who could be anyone. Cigarettes burn. Ash falls. ‘Silence fiction’.
80'
Croatia
IFFR 2021
The wintry wind hits the shores of Anamizu, a Japanese town where Junya promised his grandfather he'd become the heir to the family’s centuries-old Shinto shrine. Years later, he hasn’t yet honoured his word, for in the interim he has drifted away from his family. An encounter with Sara, a dancer born on the same day as he, leads him back to his place of origin. “Swallows always return to their nests”, he remarks on his return, photographing his hometown with his analogue camera and a pair of eyes that have seen all that he has experienced since leaving.
Dance, photography and film give voice to feelings that might otherwise be left repressed in this soul-stirring hybrid documentary co-directed by filmmaker Liao Jiekai and choreographer Sudhee Liao. As the film gradually places less emphasis on words in favour of gestures and dance, Sara becomes an apparition that accompanies Junya’s deeply felt melancholy.
IFFR 2021
Programme IFFR 2021
Echoing Rotterdam’s port city identity, IFFR’s newest programme offers a safe haven to the full range of contemporary cinema that the festival champions.
Still: El ventre del mar
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