Really proud the Leiden Essay Film Festival is screening Rupert Cox’s and my 2015 film “Cave Mouth and Giant Voice” inspired by the Okinawan war memories of Yogi-san (pictured above and below at meetings in 2010 and 2013).
The film centres on two listening experiences – walking with fisher people across an ino (lagoon) at end of Kadena Airbase runway and then sitting talking in a gama (cave) where Yogi-san sheltered during WWII horror, the modern day bringing muffled seepage of sounds of jets taxiing, coral crunching, water dripping and gaisensha (political sound trucks, one of which Yogi-san later recommended it would be unwise to record). It is gritty, textural material, deliberately outside both the musical and cinematic modes so very pleased Gabriel Paiuk and others curated our work.
Others being shown in the festival which runs from Sept 14 – 16 include Chantal Akerman, Aura Satz, Bo Wang, Chris Marker, Harun Farocki, Hicham Gardaf, Ho Rui An, Toshiya Tsunoda and Manthia Diawara.
