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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

Werke und Tage (der Tayoko Shiojiri im Shiotanibecken)
Encounters 2020
© Anders Edström/2020 General Asst.
“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 and Anders Edström, is an eight-hour fiction shot for a total of 27 weeks, over a period of 14 months, in a village of 47 inhabitants 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. The film will be screened in its entirety with three intermissions.
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by C.W. Winter, Anders Edström
with Tayoko Shiojiri, Hiroharu Shikata, Ryo Kase, Mai Edström, Kaoru Iwahana, Jun Tsunoda, Masahiro Motoki USA / Sweden / Japan / United Kingdom 2020 Japanese, English, Swedish 480’ Colour

With

  • Tayoko Shiojiri (Tayoko)
  • Hiroharu Shikata (Hiroharu)
  • Ryo Kase (Ryo Sasaki)
  • Mai Edström (Mai)
  • Kaoru Iwahana (Junji)
  • Jun Tsunoda (Kagawa)
  • Masahiro Motoki (Neighbor)

Crew

Directors C.W. Winter, Anders Edström
Screenplay C.W. Winter Diary entries by Tayoko Shiojiri
Cinematography Anders Edström
Editing C.W. Winter
Sound Design Rob Walker
Sound C.W. Winter
Producers C.W. Winter, Anders Edström, Wang Yue
Executive Producer C.W. Winter
Co-Producers Helen Sara Jones, Naomi Wright
Co-Production Silver Salt Films London

Produced by

General Asst.

Anders Edström

Edström Office

Photos

Berlinale Meets | Interview

C.W. Winter

© General Asst.

Born in Newport Beach, California, USA, he studied at the California Institute of the Arts. He has written articles for “Cinema Scope” and “Moving Image Source”. In February 2020, he completed his doctorate in art practice and theory at the University of Oxford. He has already co-directed The Anchorage with Anders Edström. The film won them both the Pardo d’oro Cineasti del presente at Locarno.

Filmography

2009 The Anchorage 2020 The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (Werke und Tage (der Tayoko Shiojiri im Shiotanibecken))

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2020

Anders Edström

© General Asst.

Born in Frösö, Sweden. Since the early 1990s, his work has been exhibited at venues including the Musée d’art moderne and the Centre Pompidou in Paris as well as the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt.

Filmography

2009 The Anchorage 2020 The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (Werke und Tage (der Tayoko Shiojiri im Shiotanibecken))

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2020