Ito Takashi: ‘A Silent Day depicts a girl’s uneasy state of mind as it wavers between life and death. This piece reflects my own unstable spiritual state at the time. Three years have passed and, as I looked at this work calmly, I came up with an idea: what if I were to make a story of a girl who is trying to make a film called `A silent day’? By creating a new ending in which it is ambiguous whether her jumping will kill herself is real or just an incident in the film she is making.’
Also in this combined programme
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December Hide-and-Seek
Home video of the film-maker’s five-year-old son. But father is a film-maker, so it’s not really a home video. -
Monochrome Head
Man with the camera sees his daughter with a baseball bat or is it a legendary monster? As more often with Ito: it’s both. See… -
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The Moon
Film-maker looks around the house by the light of the moon. The moon makes everything strange. The film-maker makes the strange even stranger. -
Film details
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 2002
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2000
- Length
- 20'
- Medium/Format
- bijzondere asp.ratio NTSC
