The Autumn Festival of Dogo, one of the most violent religious festivals in Japan, takes place each year in the town of Matsuyama on the island of Shikoku. From the meticulous preparation to the battle, it is above all an immersive plunge into a mysterious and abstruse ceremony reported by Gaspard Kuentz (to whom we owe notably Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens, co-direct- ed with Cédric Dupire, VdR 2014). Alternating between external and distant viewpoints – such as the women leaning on the balcony to watch – and the perspective of an on-board and subjective camera, intertwining silence into the tumult of the collective trance, Uzu builds the immersive account of an event and conserves the tension required to evoke the brutal assault. Somewhere between visual ethnography and war reporting, a sensorial choreography imbued with violence, in submission to the chief.

領域を横断して映像史を体現する日本の前衛映画の巨匠、松本俊夫の軌跡を辿る700分に及ぶ新作ドキュメンタリー作品。本作は松本俊夫が歩んだ映画に対する実践的な理論を基盤に、記録映画・拡張映画・劇映画・実験映画・映画運動という全5編から構成されたドキュメンタリー映画です。