Uzu
ABOUT
Held every October in the city of Matsuyama (island of Shikoku), the Dogo Autumn Festival is one of the most violent religious festivals celebrated in Japan. Eight teams of men carrying massive portable wood shrines that can weigh up to a ton collide them together in a holy battle, leaving many injured and exhausted.
Born in Paris, he moves to Japan to complete the Eiga Bigakko Film School in Tokyo. He gets involved with Tokyo experimental music scene, leading him to start the documentary project WE DON’T CARE ABOUT MUSIC ANYWAY. Awarded in Entrevues 2009 and ERA NH 2010, WE DON’T CARE… is still acclaimed as a new perspective on both avant-garde music and documentary. Benefiting from his intimate knowledge of Japan and East Asia, he develops in this region hybrid documentaries, mixing visual anthropology with fictional and experimental approaches. In 2014, he shoots KINGS OF THE WIND & ELECTRIC QUEENS in the Sonepur fair (North India), awarded Best Mid-Length Documentary in Hot Docs. His radical short film UZU (2016) is invited in numerous festivals (IDFA and Visions du Réel among others), before being nominated in the “Best shorts list of the year” of Cinema Eye Awards 2017. His last feature film FOR YOU, LORD, FOR YOU was shown in Cinéma du Réel and Nouveau Cinéma 2017 among others.
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