Naitosutōrī

[Text available only in English] “Naitosutōrī” (Night Stories) - 2020 - explores, once again, the unconcious mind through night excursions in the intricate japanese cities.

How many tales, anecdotes, mysteries and secrets does these little streets, tiny iyazaka where people gather to drink after work keep?

Domestic stories, hidden desires, nostalgia, forfeit, wrongdoings, love affairs, joy, hope, life and death scrambles with the voices, sake vessels, typical food like yakitori, oden and robatayaki.

Thus, using resources of the visual narrative of the videoclip genre, taking as examples renowned directors such as Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Floria Sigismondi and Chris Cunningham, “Naitosutōrī” invites us to a trip to the unconscious mind with the aid of sound and visuals in real time.

Rather than screening a traditional, linear edited film, a live cinema performance allows artists the freedom to experiment and improvise within a selection of different material, prepared video clips, audio visual samples or more generative code based plugins that can be run in VJ software.

This freedom allows the artist to present their work as a fully live and interactive performance, adding different audio and visual effects to their material on-the-fly. These different feeds of video can be distributed across multiple screens, layered, looped and edited to create immersive, three dimensional works that are very different to a traditional cinema experience.