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TEMPO

By Yu ARAKI

Experimental - Completed 2022

A quiet, atmospheric portrait of an elderly store owner in the small town of Yagi, Kyoto Prefecture. Yu Araki’s camera carefully observes the curiously named Mr. Yagi’s daily routine and interactions with local customers during the last autumn season for his shop, which is no longer in business.

Festivals
& Awards

Berwick FIlm and Media Arts Festival 2022

Official selection

BFI London FF 2023

Official selection

BFI London FF 2024

Shorts programme

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Experimental, Social issues, Art - Culture
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 20 mn
- Director(s)
- Yu ARAKI
- Cast
- Satoru YAGI, Harumi SAITO
- Producer(s)
- Executive COMMITTEE (Kyoto: Re-Search)
- Synopsis
- An atmospheric portrait of an elderly man who runs a local vegetable shop in the small town of Yagi, Kyoto Prefecture. The shop owner, Mr. Yagi, was born and raised in the town of Yagi, where he formerly served as town councilman until it merged with neighboring towns in 2006.
  The camera quietly follows what would later become the last autumn season for this shop, which is no longer in business. Araki portrays Mr. Yagi and his shop somewhat symbolically with the Yagi town per se, currently experiencing depopulation yet still in suspension. The title "tempo" not only refers to the slow pacing of this edit but also has a double meaning with the Japanese word "tenpo (店舗)" which means "store".
  This experimental film was made organically by intermixing documentation footage of Yu Araki's video installation "A Lizard and Spider" which took place at this very shop in 2021.

TEMPO

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