With no end in sight to the COVID-19 pandemic, the documentary film "Fermenting People" has been showing at the Shibuya cinema "Eurospace" since July 10th. It depicts the changes in Kamakura's people and music culture since March 11th, while also reexamining the symbiosis between microorganisms and humans.
The documentary film "Fermenting People" follows the Imagine Bon Odori Dance Club, formed by women who organized an anti-nuclear parade in Kamakura after the Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear accident, over a seven-year period. While depicting the songs and dances of these women emerging from "life after March 11," the film also focuses on the fermentation of microorganisms. Through interviews with bakeries and sake breweries where fermentation is heavily involved, the film explores the relationship between humans and microorganisms, making it a fermentation documentary from the ancient capital of Kamakura.
Kamakura is an ancient city surrounded by sea and mountains. In 2011, women who marched through the city in an "Anti-Nuclear Power Parade" formed the "Imagine Bon Odori Club." They began to dance, turning the thoughts that arise in their daily lives into songs.
The "Fermented Bon Odori" song was born from the ideas of sake, miso, and bread making. The "Salt Cooking Festival" involves drawing seawater and cooking it over a fire with firewood to make salt. Eventually, these unusual songs and dances connect people.
This film depicts the humorous protesters of Kamakura and Hayama, the whirlwind of Bon Odori, and the laughter of women, while also listening to non-human presences. The macroscopic perspective of the "Earth Calendar," a circular calendar that scales down the solar system, intersects with the microscopic perspective of "fermentation." What will we find amidst this chaos and kindness?
It has been 10 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear accident. What was born then continues to this day. A fermentation documentary that sheds light on the current COVID-19 pandemic!
https://youtu.be/h8ov0js8PLg
The documentary film "Fermenting People" follows the Imagine Bon Odori Dance Club, formed by women who organized an anti-nuclear parade in Kamakura after the Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear accident, over a seven-year period. While depicting the songs and dances of these women emerging from "life after March 11," the film also focuses on the fermentation of microorganisms. Through interviews with bakeries and sake breweries where fermentation is heavily involved, the film explores the relationship between humans and microorganisms, making it a fermentation documentary from the ancient capital of Kamakura.
■ "The Fermenting People" Synopsis
Kamakura is an ancient city surrounded by sea and mountains. In 2011, women who marched through the city in an "Anti-Nuclear Power Parade" formed the "Imagine Bon Odori Club." They began to dance, turning the thoughts that arise in their daily lives into songs.
The "Fermented Bon Odori" song was born from the ideas of sake, miso, and bread making. The "Salt Cooking Festival" involves drawing seawater and cooking it over a fire with firewood to make salt. Eventually, these unusual songs and dances connect people.
This film depicts the humorous protesters of Kamakura and Hayama, the whirlwind of Bon Odori, and the laughter of women, while also listening to non-human presences. The macroscopic perspective of the "Earth Calendar," a circular calendar that scales down the solar system, intersects with the microscopic perspective of "fermentation." What will we find amidst this chaos and kindness?
It has been 10 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake and nuclear accident. What was born then continues to this day. A fermentation documentary that sheds light on the current COVID-19 pandemic!
https://youtu.be/h8ov0js8PLg
[Movie Information]
Documentary Film "Fermenting People" (2020/92 minutes/Color/DCP)
Director: Takaaki Hirano
Cast: Fueriko Senou, Sakurako Oshima, Ai Yamaguchi, Naomi Kawasaki, Yusuke Yamamoto, Aya Takahashi, Kaichi Sugiyama (Earth Calendar creator), Junpei Katsumi (Paradise Alley), Yu Terada (Terada Honke)
Music: Imagine Bon Odori Club, pass into silence
Title: Senou Fueriko
Print: RYOCK
Poster design: Hirano Eri
With the cooperation of: Tsuchiya Yutaka, OurPlanetTV, Hirano Yuriko
Distribution: FukuFuku Eizo
Documentary Film "Fermenting People" (2020/92 minutes/Color/DCP)
Director: Takaaki Hirano
Cast: Fueriko Senou, Sakurako Oshima, Ai Yamaguchi, Naomi Kawasaki, Yusuke Yamamoto, Aya Takahashi, Kaichi Sugiyama (Earth Calendar creator), Junpei Katsumi (Paradise Alley), Yu Terada (Terada Honke)
Music: Imagine Bon Odori Club, pass into silence
Title: Senou Fueriko
Print: RYOCK
Poster design: Hirano Eri
With the cooperation of: Tsuchiya Yutaka, OurPlanetTV, Hirano Yuriko
Distribution: FukuFuku Eizo
