A TomoeArts’ Recommendation: New Asia Film Festival 2010

TomoeArts is a screening partner of a new Japanese/French feature documentary called We Don’t Care About Music Anyway… a film about the sounds and noises of 21st century urban Japan, and a group of Japanese musicians in Tokyo’s new music scene. Directed by Cédric Dupire and Gaspard Kuentz.  Looks wild, challenging and very Tokyo to me…

For more information and a trailer see:
http://www.vnaff.ca/naff/new-asia-film-festival-2010/festival-full-program/we-dont-care-about-music-anyways/

From the promotional material of  “We Don’t Care About Music Anyway”
“More than a film about music, We Don’t Care...  is first of all a film about sound and its perception: primitive sounds, instinct-based, below or before any musical code, are constantly sought by our protagonists.”

 “It is also a film about the sounds of the city, formatted, sterilized, but omnipresent in Tokyo inhabitants’ everyday life.”

“It is only through it that the beauty of a feedback noise, the crunch overdrive of a loudspeaker, of a police siren, of a garbage crusher is revealed. The musical gesture magnifies the daily gesture, as the musical sounds do for the city noise, providing its sonorous and visual relevance to the complex city embodying these two far-ends in its own womb.”