The Japanese Film Festival (JFF) Fringe returns to Sydney screens this June with an off-season program of contemporary Japanese films exploring matters of art and design.
Presented by the Japan Foundation Sydney, the 2022 season’s program follows the theme of ‘In the Presence of Space,’ featuring a selection of documentaries that survey the intersection of Japanese contemporary art, music and architecture in film.
In acknowledgement of the near-completion of the highly anticipated Sydney Modern project at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the series spotlights its designers, Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA.
Architecture, Time and Kazuyo Sejima, directed by Takashi Homma, is a close examination of Sejima’s creative process from concept to completion. The documentary covers the three and a half years over which Sejima created the new building for Osaka University of Arts.
A Room of Her Own: Rei Naito and Light, directed by Yuko Nakamura, is an appraisal of an immersive artwork, Matrix, constructed in collaboration with SANAA architect Rye Nishizawa at the Teshima Art Museum. The art documentary attempts to get close to the essense of illusive artist Rei Naito, who refuses to be recorded on film, without ever pointing the camera at her.
Architectural film makers Bêka and Lemoine also have two films as part of the festival.
The JFF Fringe launched in 1997, this year marking a quarter of a century of celebration of Japanese film on Australian screens. The festival will run from 24-26 June and each film will screen twice, at Sydney’s Palace Verona or Palace Central.
Click here to view the full program. Tickets are now on sale at the Japanese Film Festival website.
Films
Architecture, Time and Kazuyo Sejima dir. by Takashi Homma (2020)
Tokyo Ride dir. by Bêka and Lemoine (2020)
Moriyama-San dir. by Bêka and Lemoine (2017)
A Room of Her Own: Rei Naito and Light dir. by Yuko Nakamura (2015)
Source: Architecture - architectureau
