Shuhei Hatano
RADIANCE
Giappone 2023, 18'05"
April 2020. In a world where meeting friends was forbidden for an extended period of time, the director decided to shoot each day with no particular purpose in mind: the modest sparkle of the day to day with daughter and wife, fragments pieced together to form a letter to dear friends. An avant-garde home movie of forgetting and discovering. “No one told me to, but I simply decided to spend a year shooting every day. Looking back on the period, because I had to capture something with my camera every day, I had something focus on; and because I kept shooting, I also had something to think about. The camera had become my new eyes.”
Filmmaker Shuhei Hatano was born in 1980 in Tottori, Japan, and currently lives in Tokyo. He is a graduate of the Moving Images and Performing Arts Department at Tama Art University. His major films include Origin of Shadows (2017, Tokyo Documentary Film Festival 2018 Short Film Competition Grand Prize), and I Remember (2021, Festival Film Dokumenter Yogyakarta 2022 Best International Feature-Length Documentary). Radiance was in competition at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2023.
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