A Shape of Time - the composer Jo Kondo

Name: A Shape of Time - the composer Jo Kondo
Genre: Documentary
Released: 18 Mar 2016
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Cast: Jo Kondo

Jo Kondo (*1947) is one of the most interesting composers of contemporary music in Japan. His music is composed intuitively and at the same time it is highly abstract. Without clear directionality and at the same time not without form. For a Japanese audience it sounds “Western” and in the West it is regarded “Japanese”. A music in between categories. Like Kondo’s music the film is shifting between places and directions: a concert in the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, an elaborate sushi bar in Tokyo, a CD-production in a Cologne radio station, the Zuisenji temple in Kondo’s neighborhood in Kamakura. Kondo wants his music to appear “normal”, without spectacular surface or narrative elements. A concept of “normality” you may also find in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, who – like Kondo – spent most of his life in Kamakura.

Year: 2016

Genre: Documentary

Studio: Viola Rusche & Hauke Harder

Director: Viola Rusche, Hauke Harder

Cast: Jo Kondo

Crew: Viola Rusche (Director), Hauke Harder (Director), Martin Zawadzki (Director of Photography), Ludger Blanke (Camera Operator), Viola Rusche (Editor), Hauke Harder (Sound)

Runtime: 100 minutes

Release: Mar 18, 2016

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Country: Germany

Language: English, 日本語