Mr Zwilling and Mrs Zuckermann
Chernivtsi, a city in western Ukraine (Czernowitz in German) used to be the centre of the Jewish culture, but only a handful of its Jewish residents survived the concentration camps—Mr ZWILLING, the...
Berlin-Stettin
The director revisits places of his own past. Born in 1944 in Stettin (now the Polish city of Szczecin) and grown up in Berlin-Karlshorst, he has met and turned numerous people and locations between...
In Sarmatia
In ancient times, the vast area between the Vistula, the Volga, the Baltic Sea, and the Black Sea was called ‘Sarmatia’, where Moldova, Belarus, Lithuania, and Ukraine can be found today. Quoting the...
Dear Photograph (Sashingwa)
Dear Photograph (Sashingwa) is an artistic elaboration on TAKAMINE Go’s first solo exhibition, featuring a series of hand-tinted photographs, some of which directly came from his family album. The...
Okinawan Dream Show
With childhood friend OTA Kazuhito (Tarugani) as his sound man, TAKAMINE Go captures on 8mm film the everyday landscape of Okinawa right after the reversion to Japan, and the scent of death from his...
Paradise View
Blurring the line between reality and fantasy, TAKAMINE’s signature style of storytelling has already taken shape in this feature film debut. Set in Okinawa on the eve of reversion and filmed almost...
Untamagiru
A contemporary adaptation of a popular play in the Uchinaa Shibai (Okinawan theatre), this film features a blue-collar factory worker who transforms into Untamagiru, a local Robin Hood figure, on the...
Tsuru-Henry
This road film revolves around an Okinawan folk song singer Tsuru and her son Henry’s filmmaking journey. Taiwanese singers CHIN Man-wang, LEE Ping-huei, and acclaimed actress CHEN Shiang-chyi all...