Kaori Oda's magical film CENOTE, set in Mexico and also co-produced by our Marta Hernaiz-Pidal (along with Bistrik7 collaborator and friend Jorge Bolado), is now playing on MUBI for a limited time as part of their Rotterdam Film Festival selection. If you have yet to see it now is your chance!
WATCH HERE: https://mubi.com/films/cenote
‘Cenote’ in JAPAN CUTS 2020!
We will be showing "and" in the experimental spotlight department of Japan Cuts 2020 Online Film Festival this year. We will also participate in panel discussions to talk to all the directors who are participating in the documentary department.
https://japancuts.japansociety.org/film/new-approaches-to-documentary-from-japan/
Next week in the Bright Futures main program, our Kaori Oda’s Mexican documentary premieres at Rotterdam. The film was also co-produced by our Marta Hernaiz-Pidal.
Synopsis:
In Northern Yucatan, Mexico, natural sinkholes called 'cenotes' constituted the sole water source for Mayans not living near a river or lake. Some cenotes were used for ritual sacrifices, and the Mayans believed that these holy springs connected this world to the afterlife.
The past and present of those living around the cenotes coalesce in this mysterious place. Long-lost memories echo in hallucinatory turquoise underwater footage, an entrancing game of light and dark. Swimming in these sinkholes, director Oda Kaori encounters intriguing shapes and beams of light, the water heaves, drops fall like razor blades.
Oda, who studied under Béla Tarr in Sarajevo, previously made Aragane, which was shot in a Bosnian coal mine. For Cenote, she used Super-8 film and a bubbling water soundscape. A captivating form for her impressions of a place where, as a ghostly voiceover explains, nothing is forgotten.
Original title Ts'onot
Filmmaker Oda Kaori
Premiere International premiere
Country Japan, Mexico
Year2019
Length 75’
LanguageSpanish
Producer Oda Kaori, Echigoya Takashi, Jorge Bolado, Marta Hernaiz
Production Company FieldRain, Aichi Arts Center, cinevendaval
Sales Article Films
Writer
Oda Kaori
Cinematography Oda Kaori
Editor Oda Kaori, Takeshi Hata
Production Design Marta Hernaiz
Sound Design Oda Kaori
Cast
voices of: Araceli del Rosario Chulim Tun, Juan de la Rosa Mibmay
Website https://fieldrain.net
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<セノーテプロジェクト>
メキシコユカタン半島北部に点在するセノーテと呼ばれる泉。
樹の根が這う水中洞窟、その縦穴の上から太陽の光が水の中に降る。
生贄として捧げられた者たち。
脈絡のない断片的な記憶の連なり。
それ自体がもつ直感と予見性。
現地リサーチ(撮影)からインスピレーションをえて制作される映画、映像インスタレーション、ペインティングを横断するプロジェクト
-第1回目リサーチ撮影 2017年5月〜6月 実施
-第2回目リサーチ撮影 2018年5月〜6月 実施
-第3回目リサーチ撮影 2018年11月 実施
-2019年1月~3月 長編映画作品『セノーテ』編集
-2019年4月 長編映画作品『セノーテ』完成
2019年6月16日 愛知県美術館・愛知芸術文化センターにて『セノーテ』初上映