Naomi Kawase’s Master Class

“A master class is like a journey through time, like a portrait that is fragmented and blurry, like a story that one begins to tell without really knowing how it will end.” With these words, the 4+1 Festival’s Guest of Honor presents her own unique vision of filmmaking, which will be the main theme of the master class Naomi Kawase will offer October 29th at the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City.

With the same sort of tact she has invariably applied throughout her extensive filmography, Kawase will talk about the early works that first marked her style. “Flash-Back: we’ll look back at the past and revisit my first films, the first images I shot. I don’t know whether those first few works already hinted at the sort of filmmaker I would become in the future, the sort of films I would eventually make, but I do think there is something in them that I have never lost throughout my career: a certain fascination with life and with images, a fascination with filmmaking. Where did this fascination come from?” Combining and alternating documentary and fiction, something that has become a constant in her career, Naomi Kawase will focus especially on her work Embracing (Ni Tsutsumarete, 1992), which she considers crucial in her career as it was the first title where she tried to overcome barriers, “without worrying about definitions, simply losing myself in that same fascination I discovered the first time I pressed a button on an old Super 8 camera.”

Anyone interested in attending the master class should send their name and contact information, festivalcuatromasuno.fundacion@mapfre.com, indicating “Master Class” as the reference. Registration is on a personal basis and will only be valid once you have received an e-mail confirming registration. In order to enter the classroom on the 29th and pick up the translation headset, participants must present a valid ID (IFE, driver’s license, passport…).

Date: Saturday, October 29th
Place: Cineteca Nacional. Room 4
Time: 11:00
Estimated duration: 2 hours

Limited capacity