38th edition 2023 short & midlength films
Visit Me In My Dreams
Sora Hokimoto
In a land where the living are dead and the dead are living, reside a grandfather, a mother, and her son, Slowpoke. Slowpoke continues to linger around his mother who is dying but determined to live her life through.
Sora Hokimoto studied Film and Performing Arts at the Tama Art University in Tokyo. In 2016, he made his feature film debut with Haruneko, invited to the 46th Rotterdam International Film Festival. In 2019, besides his activities as filmmaker, he formed his band, Bialystocks.
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A word from the selection committee :
The attention to sound design in Visit Me in My Dreams is striking: the ruffling leaves, coffee being ground, even the screeching windmill, are tell-tale signs of a life that goes by with the seasons. However, Sora Hokimoto’s pop music regularly assaults this naturalistic soundscape. These seemingly obvious tunes propelled by the sudden sound of a piano or string instruments, conjure up forgotten classics, and present countless opportunities to explore a reality in which the boundaries between the living and the dead are momentarily abolished. If they cannot communicate directly, they leave all sorts of signs behind them (an abandoned road sign in the middle of the street, a gift left hanging on a clothesline), allowing their relatives - and the audience - access to a dream world: country roads, where fantasy lurks just round the corner.
- Vincent Poli
- Scénario
- Sora HOKIMOTO
- Photographie
- Shin YONEKURA
- Son
- Nobuyuki KIKUCHI
- Montage
- Sora HOKIMOTO
- Musique
- Bialystocks
- Production
- Takenori SENTO, Kaori LIZUKA (Pony Canyon)