RYŪICHI SAKAMOTO: async AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Berlinale Special 2018
USA/JPN 2018
by: Stephen Nomura Schible
Ryūichi Sakamoto
RYŪICHI SAKAMOTO: async AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Berlinale Special 2018
USA/JPN 2018
by: Stephen Nomura Schible
RYŪICHI SAKAMOTO: async AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Berlinale Special 2018
USA/JPN 2018
by: Stephen Nomura Schible
RYŪICHI SAKAMOTO: async AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Berlinale Special 2018
USA/JPN 2018
by: Stephen Nomura Schible
RYŪICHI SAKAMOTO: async AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Berlinale Special 2018
USA/JPN 2018
by: Stephen Nomura Schible
Feb 21, 2018Ryūichi Sakamoto, Stephen Nomura Schible
The director and the protagonist - member of the International Jury 2018 - at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
Berlinale Special – RYŪICHI SAKAMOTO: async AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Feb 21, 2018Ryūichi Sakamoto
The protagonist giving autographs in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
Berlinale Special – RYŪICHI SAKAMOTO: async AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Feb 21, 2018Ryūichi Sakamoto
The protagonist giving an interview in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
Berlinale Special – RYŪICHI SAKAMOTO: async AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY
Feb 21, 2018Ryūichi Sakamoto, Stephen Nomura Schible
At the premiere in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.
Berlinale Special – RYŪICHI SAKAMOTO: async AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY
In April 2017 Japanese composer, pianist and music producer Ryūichi Sakamoto made a guest appearance for two evenings in the Veteran’s Room, an intimate, 200-seater hall at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. Stephen Nomura Schible recorded this concert with his camera. His film shows the award-winning film composer, whose unusual soundtracks have left their mark on dramas such as The Last Emperor and The Revenant, inventing his spontaneous ‘asynchronous’ music. We see him in action with various electronic instruments, a grand piano without a lid, a guitar and a glass panel. The resulting chords sound like a cosmic, angelic chorale. In addition, a huge screen mounted on the ceiling of the room above the grand piano translates the melancholic, contemplative sounds that float into the air into black-and-white images, engendering the kind of free-fall associations reminiscent of early avant-garde film. Sakamoto’s New York concert was interpreted by critics as an homage to life itself. After his own battle with cancer, the composer seems to be asking with his dreamlike music what it means to defy death. Sakamoto is a member of the International Jury at the 2018 Berlinale.
by
Stephen Nomura Schible
USA / Japan 2018
Without dialogue
Documentary form65’ · Colour
Born in Tokyo, Japan, he studied film at New York University. After working as an assistant director for the documentary filmmaker Kazuo Hara, he became a producer's representative on Japanese films such as Shinji Aoyama’s Eureka and Naomi Kawase’s Firefly. He also oversaw international co-productions such as H-Story by Nobuhiro Suwa and co-produced Sofia Coppola’s Oscar-winning drama Lost in Translation. He directed and produced Eric Clapton: Sessions for Robert J. In 2017 he made Ryūichi Sakamoto: Coda which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival.
Filmography2017 Ryūichi Sakamoto: Coda 2018 Ryūichi Sakamoto: async AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY; documentary
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018
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