Sumarsólstöður + Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers
Sumarsólstöður
Amélie Ravalec
- 2025
- France, Great-Britain
- Short film / Drama / Science-fiction
- 30mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
Between dream and reality, documentary and fiction, Amélie Ravalec leads us into a cinematic vision, a journey as interstellar as 2001’s hallucinations, as mystical as The Matrix, to question the capacity of artists' dreams to change the world and restore balance to the cosmos.
Credits
- With : Gô Arisue, Hu Chia, Ásgerður Eria, Paul Michael Henry, Osamu Kuroda...
- Screenplay : Amélie Ravalec, Vincent Ravalec
- Photography : Maaserhit Honda, Chris Moore, Kevin Pagès
- Editing : Amélie Ravalec
- Music by : Greg Dombrowski, The Secession
- Production : Vincent Ravalec
Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers
Amélie Ravalec
- 2025
- Great-Britain, Japan, France
- Documentary
- 1h40mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
French premiere
Mishima, Araki, Terayama, Hijikata, here are a few of the most emblematic names from an avant-garde movement that shattered the norms and cultural language of Japan in the 60s, in a time of social and political upheaval. A whole generation of provocative artists, and proud to be so, transcended the trauma of war, swept along by a desire for rebellion and a hunger for absolute freedom. Be it with cinema and underground theater, intensely carnal experimental photography, surrealistic graphic art from pop to eroguro, or infernal Butô dances, they would redefine the rules by refusing them. Today still, these artists keep spreading their influence, from Japan to the rest of the world.
Like visual fireworks, Amélie Ravalec’s documentary magnificently does them due justice.
Credits
- With : Nobuyoshi Araki, Tatsumi Hijikata, Eikoh Hosoe, Yukio Mishima, Daido Moriyama...
- Screenplay : Amélie Ravalec
- Photography : Maaserhit Honda, Chris Moore
- Editing : Amélie Ravalec
- Music by : Greg Dombrowski, The Secession
- Production : Amélie Ravalec
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