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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

25th(2020) World Cinema

Family · Aging · Rural · Tradition · Environment · Labor

CountryUnited States,Sweden,Japan,UK
Production Year2020
Running Time480min
Format DCP
ColorColor

Program Note

“The first rule in farming is that you are never to hope for an easy way. The land demands your effort.” The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), the second feature from directors C.W. Winter & Anders Edström, is an eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. It is a film that takes the time to spend time and hear people out. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books. Featuring a performance by Tayoko Shiojiri that binds fiction and actual bereavement into a heartbreaking indeterminability. (NAM Dong-chul)

* Screening schedule
Part 1: 09:30 ~ 11:10 (Intermission 1: 15 min)
Part 2: 11:25 ~ 13:15 (Lunch Break: 13:15 ~ 14:15)
Part 3: 14:15 ~ 16:25 (Intermission 2: 15 min)
Part 4: 16:40 ~ 19:12

Director

C.W. WINTER

Born in Newport Beach, California, C.W. Winter earned his MFA from California Institute of the Arts, where he studied under directors Thom Anderson, James Benning, and Allan Sekula. His writing has appeared in Cinema Scope, Moving Image Source, Purple, and Too Much. In 2020, he completed his doctorate at the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford. Since 2003, he has been working on films with Anders Edström, and their first joint project was a mid-length documentary titled One Plus One 2. In 2009, his debut feature Anchorage won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival and a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) is his second feature and the winner of the Award for Best Film in the Encounters section at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Anders EDSTRÖM

Born in Frösö, Sweden, Anders Edström began working as a photographer in the early 1990s. His work has been exhibited at venues such as the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Centre Pompidou, and the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt. He has published five books, including Hanezawa Garden, Waiting Some Birds a Bus a Woman..., and Safari. Since 2003, he has been making films with C.W. Winter, and their first joint project was a mid-length documentary titled One Plus One 2. In 2009, his debut feature Anchorage won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival and a Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award. The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) is their second joint feature film and the winner of the Award for Best Film in the Encounters section at the Berlin International Film Festival.

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Credit

Director C.W. WINTER C.W. 윈터, Anders EDSTRÖM 안더스 에드스트롬
Producer C.W. WINTER, Yue WANG, Anders EDSTRÖM
Cast Tayoko SHIOJIRI, Hiroharu SHIKATA, Ryo KASE, Kaoru IWAHANA, Mai EDSTRÖM, Jun TSUNODA
Production Company General Asst.
yue@generalasst.com