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Screening at Northside DIY Film Competition ( NY )

koike — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:27:33 +0000

La Faute des Fleurs will be screened on June 19, at 10:30 pm at UnionDocs (Northside DIY Film Festival in NY)

See Event Calendar http://www.uniondocs.org/event-calendar/

Screening “La Faute des Fleurs” & Talk Session in Tokyo 11 Jun 2011

koike — Mon, 23 May 2011 22:11:45 +0000

*with English subtitles

Date :2011 . 11th . Jun (sat)

Place: Cyclo Hatomori Studio ( 1-1 Sendagaya,Shibuya-ku,Tokyo)

Open: 4 p.m. Start: 5 p.m.

Ticket: adv.1,000 yen / door.1,500 yen

* Kazuki Tomokawa will appear on Talk Session after Screening

Comment from Daido Moriyama

koike — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 14:05:30 +0000

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The artist Kazuki Tomokawa is starkly portrayed in this film as a “shadow” – a determined wanderer through life; a cursing shadow, a bruising shadow, a challenging shadow, and a walking shadow.

Kazuki Tomokawa devoted his 60 years of being to a path of self-deconstruction, to the point where we can now see into his naked soul, which stands before us shouting it’s defiance.

“Spit on a grave” - Dido Moriyama

Tomokawa has been featured in Japanese newspaper (Daily Yomiuri) in English

koike — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:37:28 +0000

“Alive and strumming: Underground guru Kazuki Tomokawa reflects on eve of lauded documentary’s release”

- on 10 December , daily yomiuri ( English)

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/arts/T101209002756.htm

Info. “La Faute des Fleurs” will be screened with English subtitles

koike — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:17:49 +0000

Screening at K’s Cinema in Tokyo ( from 18th December 2010 )

koike — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:20:38 +0000

K’s Cinema (Shinjuku, Tokyo)

Japan premiere October 2010 ( Bakuon Film Fes @ Yokohama)

koike — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:16:55 +0000

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Loud Sound Film Festival at Yokohama

http://www.bakuon-bb.net/yokohama/program.php

Screening at Northwest Film Forum in Seattle (26th Aug. 2010)

koike — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:46:28 +0000

26th Aug. 2010

La Faute des Fleurs will be screened at Northwest Film Forum in Seattle.

Thursday, Aug 26 at 08:00PM
Seeing La Faute des Fleurs is like being hit by a Japanese spaceship. After having been told by a fan about an incredible tale, Viincent Moon traveled to Japan to meet a 59-year-old Japanese folk singer and cult figure Kazuki Tomokawa, better known as “the screaming philosopher.” In the film, Tomokawa, who has performed in films by both Nagisa Oshima and Takashi Miike, loses it completely, burning bridges during a wild drinking spree, then reaching for another bottle instead of his guitar. This deeply moving portrait brings to life the flawed Tomokawa, bungled relationships, gambling habit and all.

More information:
http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/1401
http://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/series/1391

‘La Faute des Fleurs’ is presented at IN-EDIT NESCAFÉ in Chile

koike — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:14:38 +0000

12^th Dec. 2009

La Faute des Fleurs is presented at The International Documentary Musical Film Festival IN-EDIT NESCAFÉ in Chile.

Vincent Moon wins Sound and Vision Award 2009 at CPH: DOX

koike — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:15:52 +0000

11^th Nov. 2009

Vincent Moon wins Sound and Vision Award 2009 at Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH: DOX ) for La Faute des Fleurs.

A very moving film about a true artist! I can’t remember the last time I saw such a beautiful documentary. This is what we said when we presented the award at the show Saturday night: The jury sat in the cinema together. As the film ended, the silence from having experienced something unique and complete, left us for a while with no words. Filed by emotions – nothing to add. Then someone whispered in the dark ‘I think we have a winner’ and the rest of us agreed on the spot.

This is a film that goes beyond musical taste, and right in to the human soul.

The filmmaker leads us with his precise and sensitive camera through a beautiful, poetic and ruthless journey of a man driven to create by his inner demons.

It’s skillfully edited, fluid in structure but still with a narrative voice. It gives the insight to an inspiring artist, and the man behind the art. And respectfully reveals the pains and consequences for living as an outsider to the norms of society.

17th Nov. 2009, Kenneth Nguyen