digital / color / 26min. / 2017 / Japan
cast ：NAKAZATO Yugo, KIM Kyonghun, Terra, Dongseok / director, screenplay, photographer, editor: YAMASHIRO Chikako / 2nd director: SUNAGAWA Atsushi / photographer, assistant director: SUZUKI Yoshinori / sound design: TAKAGI Hajime / editor: HIRATA Ryoma / interpreter, production assistant: CHO Sunhe / production support: CHO Sung Bong, TOMOYOSE Kengo
The vibration of hands clapping leaves the hands and reaches the ears where it is perceived as sound. The drifting sound is embodied by moving images. The “people of the soil” are people of the remnants that appear as if in a dream in the instant of the vibration of sound.(Y.C.)
The soil is a womb that becomes a place of death and rebirth. If there are memories of death returning to the soil, there are also hopes of life arising from it through the growth of beautiful flowers. In this work by a filmmaker whose work has consistently focused on her home area of Okinawa, this ambiguity can be glimpsed through the medium of earth. What sort of sky does a reborn person of the soil look up at after the initiation of descending to the bottom of a pit? This is a reedited theatrical version of a work originally created for exhibition in a gallery.(I.H.)