Yuki Kawamura
2021Norie
Yuki Kawamura
Yuki lost his mother after a long illness, when he and his sister were still children. For loved ones, she is now only a distant voice, a foreign face on photos, a ghost who visits them in their dreams, an increasingly blurred memory. Munemitsu, his father, has done all he could to fill this unfathomable emptiness, even forgetting. But to no avail, given that Norie is still there, like a latent and sprawling presence, entwining the invisible bonds of the family. But who really was Norie?
Norie
Grandmother
Yuki Kawamura
Grandmother death is an opportunity for each and everyone to reflect upon mourning, and beyond that, upon life, its multiple forms, its disappearance as well as its inexhaustible resources, and the signs of its infinite diversity. Life’s beauty is in water, mist and foam, in lichens and trees, in this grandmother’s dying face, and in her family’s care, affection and joking, in her children’s every word, every breath.
Grandmother
Senko
Yuki Kawamura
Toko Fujisaki, Ginga Hirao
A Japanese family is confronted with the mother's disease. The profoundly symbolistic images of this short film show us how Yù and his father perceive the possibility of the death and how it affectsa young boy and his vision of life.
Senko
Lethe
Yuki Kawamura
Two lovers swim in the river Lethe, the river of forgetfulness and oblivion. In Greek mythology, the river Lethe flowed through the Underworld, where all those who drank from it experiencend complete amnesia. The lovers never meet and thus drift apart. A girl dives into the river to forget an unhappy love.
Lethe
4 Months, 4 Years, 6 Years After
Yuki Kawamura
This series of three films were shot four months, four years and six years respectively after the tsunami in the region of Tohoku, in order to observe the changes in the landscape and how humans tries to resist the forces of nature. But despite all their efforts, they are helpless against the radioactivity that continues to plague the area.
4 Months, 4 Years, 6 Years After
