SELECTION OF SHORT FILMS

        

Direction: Naomi Kawase
Screenplay: Naomi Kawase
Production: Naomi Kawase, Sent Inc.
Cinematography: Naomi Kawase *(unless otherwise indicated)
Editing: Naomi Kawase

I FOCUS ON THAT WHICH INTERESTS ME
Original title: Watashi wa tsuyoku kyômi o motta mono o ôkiku fix de kiritoru
Japan / 1988 / 5 m. / No dialogue

Kawase’s first work, having encountered with an 8mm camera for the first time in her life. In the dignified frame, there appear objects which moved Kawase’s feeling and thought. Although those framed objects are uneventful and ordinary, Kawase says, “all the things were fresh discoveries for me, and I really enjoyed walking through the street.”

THE CONCRETIZATION OF THESE THINGS FLYING AROUND ME
Original title: Watashi ga ikiiki to kakawatte ikô to suru jibutsu no gutaika
Japan / 1988 / 5 m. / No dialogue

Kawase gets closer to her subjects and deepens the relations towards them. More sophisticated than the previous work.

MY J-W-F
Japan / 1988 / 10 m. / No dialogue

“J” is Jump, “W” want, and “F” fly.

PAPA’S ICECREAM
Original title: Papa no sofuto kurîmu
Japan / 1988 / 5 m. / Original Language: Japanese / S.O.V. Spanish

* Cinematography: Kasahara Hisayoshi

A young woman goes in search of his father, who doesn’t know. Kawase’s first 16mm work at the age of 18.

MY SOLO FAMILY
Original title: Tatta hitori no kazuko
Japan / 1989 / 10 m. / Original Language: Japanese / S.O.V. Spanish

Kawase portrays her grandmother on screen for the first time.

PRESENTLY
Original title: Ima
Japan / 1989 / 5 m. / No dialogue

Although this is a silent film, the pictures draw the audience into the world, the world as if it is filled with the sound of the running river, murmur of the street, and so on. This work tells us that Kawase montages the timing of cut composition and its rhythm.

A SMALL LARGENESS
Original title: Chiisana ôkisa
Japan / 1989 / 10 m. / Original Language: Japanese / S.O.V. Spanish

* Cinematography: Naomi Kawase, Onozawa Katsufumi, Wakamatsu Daisuke
Cast: Tanaka Shin’ichi, Onozawa Misao, Asako Keiichi

Daily routine and the rhythm of a boy who goes to school each day begin to change after a few repetitions.

MEMORY OF THE WIND
Original title: Kaze no kioku
Japan / 1995 / 30 m. / Original Language: Japanese / S.O.V. Spanish

Shibuya in Tokyo, very early in the morning, Kawase arriving by an express night-bus from Nara, with a video camera in hand. Meeting a stranger, one after another, and keep walking to look for a new encounter…

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