Progressing from sound to color, Lighting Over the Beyond is a road movie that traces the roots of cinema and the history of war while asking "What is war?" and "What is an enemy?".
Direction
Hanno's formal rigor turns film history into emotional artillery.
Cinematography
The progression from monochrome silence to saturated sound is devastating.
Director
Yoshihiro Hanno
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hanno's background in experimental music explains the film's rhythmic structure—each 'chapter' operates like a movement in a requiem, with silence as active composition.
The casting of Awich—a rapper with Okinawan and American roots—layers the film's inquiry into enemy-making with her own bicultural positionality.
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