THE WORKS AND DAYS (OF TAYOKO SHIOJIRI IN THE SHIOTANI BASIN)

By C.w. WINTER, Anders EDSTROM

GENERAL ASST. - as PROD

Family - Completed 2020


Festivals
& Awards

Busan IFF 2020
World Cinema
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Family, Drama
    • Countries
    • USA, SWEDEN, JAPAN, UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • JAPANESE, ENGLISH, SWEDISH
    • Duration
    • 480 mn
    • Director(s)
    • C.w. WINTER, Anders EDSTROM
    • Synopsis
    • “The first rule in farming is that you are never to hope for an easy way. The land demands your effort.” The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin), the second feature from directors C.W. Winter & Anders Edström, is an eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. It is a film that takes the time to spend time and hear people out. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books. Featuring a performance by Tayoko Shiojiri that binds fiction and actual bereavement into a heartbreaking indeterminability.