Kurosawa Daydream, Newcastle Fringe Festival
Video work for Mitchell Elliott
stills from Kurosawa Daydream (please swipe to view)
digital film in the southern alps of Japan and on Darug and Gundungurra land
2022
digital film in the southern alps of Japan and on Darug and Gundungurra land
2022
Kurosawa Daydream was released as a noise EP in 2021 by friend and collaborator Mitchell Elliott. Elliott describes it as a series of attempts to expand his experience of watching the 1990 magical realist film ‘Dreams’ by Akira Kurosawa into his own multiverse. He daydreamed a story for my own vocal melody based on the Mt Fuji in Red and The Weeping Demon sections, the final song ‘Mountain Climbing’ pursuing a further abstraction into this dream place.
In March 2022 Elliott performed Kurosawa Daydream as a live set for the Newcastle Fringe Festival at The Royal Exchange, for which I filmed and edited together a video piece. It was collated during a period of change, causing the video-making to become a constant refuge I inhabited. Each day and into the night I listened to erratic frequencies until eventually, bizarrely, the noise became a disturbance I was able to recognise as soothing. It came as a surprise to me then to hear that audience members were frozen in their seats with fright during the performances. I recall we celebrated the fact afterwards in a Thai restaurant.