“McKie’s film is not only the best dance-film of recent years but might very well be one of the best Japanese films to be released this year.”
Category: Music
Ito (2021) review [OAFF 2021]
“A charming exploration about the way in which the other allows a drifting subject to moor his desire and find a direction for his subjectivity within the Other.”
Our 30 Minute Sessions (2020) review
A very pleasant narrative that vividly underlines the importance of social bonds for the integration of a subject within the social field as well as the fundamental role the O/other plays in the process of becoming a desiring subject.
LOUDER! Can’t Hear What You’re Singing Wimp (2018) review
“A jack of all trades but a master of none.”
Shiver (2021) review
“This audiovisual experience introduces the art of taiko music in a fresh and innovative way – highly intimate and, strange as it may sound, very tactile.”
Farewell song (2019) review
A truly moving narrative that explores, in a very nuanced but detailed way, the difficulty for subjects to meet the Other, the beloved Other, as subject.
On-Gaku: Our Sound (2019) review [Japan Cuts 2020]
“Iwaisawa offers a compelling exploration of music’s inherent power, a transformative power allowing the subject to pass through anxiety in order to give expression to his desire.”
Flowers and Rain (2020) review [Nippon connection online]
“A moving exploration of the struggle of securing a place for one’s subject, a place from where one can speak as subject.”