Grand Voyage au Japon
with Naomi Kawase, film director
Novembre 2013, with the participation of the students in the 2nd year of the Bachelor of Arts in Cinema
An outstanding achievement workshop was held in Nara and in the region of the city, the first imperial capital of Japan. This is the famous filmmaker Naomi Kawase, whose work was discovered and followed for years at Visions du Réel Festival in Nyon and is now celebrated in Cannes, home with his production team, as well as with assistance Celine Carridroit Cinema Department, this unique educational adventure.
11 students of 2nd year Bachelor and 3 Japanese students are encouraged to make films that relate to different characters intimately reports have with nature. This is to hire an initiatory journey that will lead by example in the Mourning Forest, dear Naomi Kawase, who turned the sequences of his films.
Be immersed in a culture, a history, a foreign language, naturally resist a picturesque tourist approach to regain his senses and define a mode of approach, a vision ... that involves risk to affirm singular gestures cinema – frames, plans, early narratives that reflect made possible encounters power of attention, availability, curiosity.
The project, which takes place as part of the Grand Voyages initiated by the Department Cinéma/cinéma du réel actual past three years, only makes sense as a term designed to implement its ambitions: this workshop was completed on 19 December to Nara by the projection of films at a ceremony attended by Japanese and Swiss personalities.
Throughout the trip, haikus were sent from Japan! Each participant (students as whole professional team, Naomi Kawase be understood) achieved at least a haiku inspired by the great Japanese poetic tradition