Underground
Singapore Premiere
Kaori Oda Japan 2024 83 min PG
A dancer’s movements and a tour guide’s stories reveal Japan’s subterranean histories in this poetic film.
The conclusion to her decade-spanning trilogy exploring subterrestrial places, Underground traverses the hidden depths of Japan, from Sapporo’s subway tunnels to Okinawan caves. Shot on 16mm film and scored with an experimental sound design, the film’s sensuous materiality captures the textures of light, darkness and shadow.
Two figures anchor the film: performer Yoshigai Nao whose sensitive physicality animates landscapes that include dappled forests and domestic interiors, and tour guide Mitsuo Matsunaga who recounts civilian experiences during the battle of Okinawa in 1945. At once tactile and ephemeral, Underground is a sensorial excavation of historical memory, collective subconscious and subterranean imagination.
Synopsis Writer: Sam I-shan
2 Dec, Tue 9:30PM / 83 min
Golden Village Bugis, Hall 4
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Underground
アンダーグラウンド
Kaori Oda
Japan
2024
Japanese
83 min
PG
Singapore Premiere
Kaori Oda
Kaori Oda explores the traces and memories of personal and collective histories in her films, which have been screened at Yamagata, Berlinale, Rotterdam and MoMA Doc Fortnight, among others. She completed a Doctor of Liberal Arts in filmmaking in Sarajevo, supervised by director Béla Tarr, and was a recipient of the Nagisa Oshima Prize.
Nao Yoshigai
Ryohei Tsutsui,
Eijun Sugihara
