Nippon-koku Ogata-mura / Japan - Big Lagoon village
This was the question for the planers of Ogata-mura (Big Lagoon Village) that was build in postwar Japan on the ground of what was once Japans second largest inland lake. Within the dichotomy of plan versus reality, the film portrays the rice- village created in the framework of a huge national land reclamation project. What was once planned as a „model farming village“ by the government would later become the place of what some would call a "secret revolution of farmers“.
2021, 110 min, color, 16:9, 2K DCP (HD), 5.1 digital, Japanese with engl. subtitles
author/director Stefanie Gaus cinematography Lilli Kuschel, Stefanie Gaus montage Daniela Kinateder, Stefanie Gaus sound recording Caroline Bergmann translation and text work Megumu Ogata, Masayo Kajimura sound design/ mix Jochen Jezussek grading and postproduction picture Till Beckmann executive producer Caroline Bergmann producer Volker Sattel funded by BKM -The Federal Government and its Commission for Culture and Media supported by Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) research residency poster Minze Gaus
distribution Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. Angelika Ramlow, contact: distribution@arsenal berlin.de
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