Neko Sees All
2017 · 10m · USA
Directed by Anna Takayama
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
Through a cat's gaze, the film traces the relationship between a young Japanese woman and an American man — from NYC snowstorms to Japanese markets, drifting into memory and reconciliation across lifetimes.
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The scouts
A 16mm short narrated by a cat, drifting between NYC and Japan across lifetimes. Either you trust that swing or you don't deserve to program shorts.
Cat-POV diaristic 16mm across NYC snowstorms and Japanese markets, slipping into lifetimes — Kawase intimacy with Chris Marker's feline menagerie. Yes.
Cat as POV device across two continents on 16mm — Naomi Kawase's diaristic intimacy plus a Chris Marker feline. Past-life reckoning emerging from a travelogue is the kind of swing that earns the comparison.
Reviews
An air of poetry and wistfulness pervades but there's heaviness under the surface