Ryuichi Sakamoto: Async
Ryuichi Sakamoto. Async (International short film competition 2017)
The intention for the competition stems from Sakamoto’s latest album, async, which is his 16th studio album. He revealed that the concept of async was written as an Andrei Tarkovsky’s imaginary soundtrack and expressed his desire to see how his music will be used in a film. It is no surprise then to find cinematic qualities within async.
Listeners hear disintegrating tunes of dissonance and resonance, crunching leaves in Sakamoto’s field recordings whilst strolling in the woods, flows of elongated melodies akin to a slow moving train, and anonymous plucking and echoing sounds that seem to reflect the ambience of raindrops. The album is perhaps an attempt to pay homage to the mystical undercurrent of life’s mundanity.
The short films will be judged by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and audiences from around the world.
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Fragments of compositions are inspired by illustration works: Daehyun Kim
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