{"id":118,"date":"2022-07-19T04:47:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T04:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jumpingframes.com\/en\/events\/%e7%84%a6%e9%bb%9e%e8%97%9d%e8%a1%93%e5%ae%b6-3-%e5%90%89%e9%96%8b%e8%8f%9c%e5%a4%ae\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T04:34:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T04:34:59","slug":"artist-focus-nao-yoshigai","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/jumpingframes.com\/en\/film\/artist-focus-nao-yoshigai\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Focus #4: Nao YOSHIGAI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Japan \/ 89 mins \/ Japanese \/ English subtitles \/ Hong Kong Premiere<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Choreographer \/ Experimental filmmaker (Japan)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nao Yoshigai studied dance for her first degree before went on to take her master in film in Tokyo University of Arts. Her film is \u201cdancing.\u201d She choreographs images, sound and text as a motion picture for a time to focus on \u201cexperience\u201d, based on physical sense and phenomena which are unique to living things. Her films often delve deeply into human nature of her subject and profoundly observe bizarre elements in a place or a person that needs a documentary. She said “This is the kind of dance I want to do.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ryu Suzuki<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 \/ 28 mins <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Yoshigai was asked to film Ryu Suzuki\u2019s identity as a dance artist for an Indian residency project. She was requested to do close-ups of Suzuki\u2019s body, similar to that she filmed in <\/span>Hottamaru <\/span><\/i>and portray his body into some kind of landscape. But she was keen to communicate through her video, so that the dancer in India could see another aspect of Suzuki, to dance with him, even though he was not there physically.   After some encounter, Yoshigai discovered Suzuki\u2019s stuffed animal characters, which he sees as entities that he trusted due to the bond of consciousness that had built up over a long period of time. The human body renews itself (through metabolism) every six months, but the stuffed animals are different, so he thinks that his own consciousness remains unchanged. In the end, it became a documentary about Suzuki with Yoshigai introducing him through her narration.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shari<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021 \/ 61 mins <\/h5>\n\n\n\n

In these rural surroundings, Yoshigai presented herself as a mysterious, fiery-red creature in red shaggy costumes, “The Red Thing”, like a walking scarecrow.  In a gym, schoolchildren met the red creature.  With the pulsating energy of a throbbing blood clot, they fight with all their might, Sumo-style. Together they recreate stories of the Ainu, the First Nations peoples of Japan, including the story of Oronko Rock which is named for the people of the area.  <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When creating dance or films, Yoshigai always looks into how close she can come to being something non-human and to cross that boundary.  In that sense, everything you see in <\/span>Shari<\/span><\/i> can be seen as dance.  The symbolic appearance of “The Red Thing” turns Yoshigai\u2019s delicate, documentary observations into an idyllic, yet disquieting fairytale. Folklore, arts and crafts, oral history, ecology, and mythology blend elegantly in this visual poem. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands (IFFR, P&I Selection 2022)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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