Invisible People is a multi-layered depiction of the unique Japanese contemporary dance Butoh that flows between revolt, eroticism, trance, prayer, ancestral experience, and physical anonymity. The film gradually drifts away from its core issue and becomes a general portrayal of life itself, with all its unforeseen strokes of fate and strange micro-connections.
When his two mature children Anton and Linda start leaving the house, after graduation, father Michael stops taking care of his body. Anton sacrifices his body for a bed-rest-study to contribute to spacetraveling, while Linda is in search of her first sexual experience.
RETRODREAMING examines the common phenomenon of ghostly, abandoned schools due to demographic change in the countryside of Japan. Empty schools in deserted villages tell their own story: May it be during the pandemic, after a nuclear catastrophe, or just due to depopulation. The film references the Japanese tradition of telling "Kaidan "(ghost stories/scary stories) and the multiple school-themed "Kaidan "(Gakkō no Kaidan, Japanese for "Scary School Story") in Japanese mainstream culture, which encompass the idea of entities and memories remaining in these architectures. The film focuses on the visual quality of the Showa-era architecture of the abandoned Sawada School in Nakanojo. A voice from a tape recorder recalls the reality of a secret experiment during a pandemic that resulted in further mysterious events. The audiovisual experience draws the viewer into a strange, suspenseful atmosphere somewhere between an unlived retro-future, a sci-fi dream, and an unfinished mystery tale.
Three Borders highlights the plurality of diasporic experiences and the suppressed narratives of racialised displacement in the USSR.
The ambitious doctor and scientist, Lucy, develops the mom-ballon, an artificial womb, which disconnects the ability to give birth from the female body, thus freeing women from the natural order. Archaic, dislocating figures drive her to either sacrifice her own child for her scientific research or to finally face her own life as a housewife.
An experimental documentary film dedicated to Japanese Butoh dance: a multi-layered portrait of a unique contemporary movement within the gray areas between rebellion, trance, ritual, meditation, prayer, philosophy, ancestral experience, and physical anonymity.
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