Eight hours. Forty-seven villagers. One extraordinary life. The slowest masterpiece you'll ever binge.
An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books.
Cinematography
Light studied like weather itself
Sound
Soundscape as co-protagonist
Direction
Twenty-seven weeks of radical patience
Director
C.W. Winter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The directors lived in Shiotani Basin for over a year; cast includes actual villagers playing themselves alongside professional actors like Ryo Kase.
A 'georgic' references Virgil's poems celebrating agricultural labor—rare in cinema, where rural Japan is typically backdrop for urban stories.
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