Naomi Kawase

Grief worked through in forest and orchard. Kawase films in and around Nara, blends documentary method into fiction, and returns persistently to absent parents and to bodies moving through vegetation. Mourning is a process with a landscape attached.

Signature

• Handheld camera close to skin, foliage and food.
• Autobiographical material — abandonment, adoption — reworked as fiction.
• Non-professional and elderly performers.
• Ritual and season structuring the narrative.