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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

Jun 22, 2022 8h 0m
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Synopsis

An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books.

Title The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
Companies Silver Salt Films
Countries Hong Kong, Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America
Keywords farmer, farming