Country: France
Year: 2010
Duration: 45'
the forest in between A journey into the very heart of the philosophy and vision of cinema of one of the greatest Japanese directors, Kohei Oguri, director of The Sting of Death (Grand Prix Winner Cannes 1990). Inspired by an animist sensibility and a constant search for harmony, he redefines in a very personal, poetic and serene way, the essence of a utopian cinema that can be regarded as the accomplishment of 30 years of reflection on the relation between the director and the moving image. “What struck me about Kohei Oguri’s cinema is his search for harmony, the pacification of conflicts. His films progressively abolish borders, plunging into a sort of second state which is represented by utopia. This is certainly not a condition of compromise, but rather, a unification. Like in Noh theater, it is a state that brings together the living and the dead, dreams and reality, modernity and tradition. This is why his pathway, which is profoundly wise, composed and meditated, seemed almost paradoxically the most anarchical proposal I had ever encountered.”
Biography
film director
Antoine Barraud
Antoine Barraud (1972) in 2004 made his first short, Monstre, which participated at numerous international festivals. He then directed other films, part documentary and part experimental, including portraits of filmmakers such as Kenneth Anger, Shuji Terayama and Koji Wakamatsu. Song (2007) and La forêt des songes (2010) were both presented at the Torino Film Festival, where, in 2011, another film of his was screened, Son of a Gun, which he co-directed with Claire Doyon. He has participated as a producer in many projects including the film by Stephen Dwoskin Age Is..., which is participating at this year’s Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Monstre (cm, 2004), Déluge (mm, 2005), Song (2007), Monstre, numéro deux (mm, 2007), River of Anger (mm, doc., 2007), Danièle Gould (doc., 2007), Plug (cm, 2009), La forêt des songes (mm, doc., 2010), La montagne de la terreur (cm, doc., 2010), Les maisons de feu (cm, doc., 2010), Son of a Gun (coregia/codirector Claire Doyon, cm, 2011), Les gouffres (2012).
Cast
& Credits
regia, fotografia/director, cinematography
Antoine Barraud
montaggio/film editing
Anne Souriau
musica/music
Andrea Monti
suono/sound
Gilles Benardeau
interprete/cast
Kohei Oguri
produttori/producers
Philippe Dijon De Monteton, Vincent Wang
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
House On Fire
