Summer has arrived at Ubuyama-mura. The cuckoo’s cry can be heard reverberating across the landscape of this mountain village. Masae travels from house to house gathering summer songs. She seems to be looking for something.

Summer songs: a collection of ancient and contemporary poems compiled over 1,100 years ago, single verses from a heartbreaking ballad, an intimate confession, a looping prayer as a path to enlightenment… Each one has its own structure. In the commitment to communication, each (re)writing entails a specific translation effort and its own setting-in-space/time/word/image/sound…

Summer songs, sweetly, in intimacy, unleash iron ties, floating on the heavy inheritance of the despotic unwritten laws of the mountain village. They are outside of space and time, and by grasping them, by bringing them to the present and placing them, they exert their liberating power.

Screenings:

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