The Sundial Carved with a Thousand Years of Notches – The Magino Village Story

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27.03.2019

Shinsuke Ogawa 1987

Translated by

Stoffel Debuysere, Elias Grootaers, Yuichiro Onuma, Britt Stuckens, Geert van Bremen, Ingeborg Verplancke

That is how this film has come into being, I think. Everything revolved around the axis of the time that our bodies harboured. Or maybe it was the space of the village that was carved into our bodies.

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27.03.2019

Documenting the Heart and Soul of the People Who Tell Stories

Shinsuke Ogawa 1987

Translated by

Elias Grootaers, Britt Stuckens, Ingeborg Verplancke

We made the scene in which the farmers perform themselves entirely with this kind of method: the villagers and we would bring up “ideas” and discuss them between ourselves; and while we grew closer to one another, we made the film. We didn’t want a reproduction of the story per se, but we wanted to document the heart and soul of the people who tell these stories.

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Sennen kizami no hidokei – Magino-mura monogatari

The Sundial Carved with a Thousand Years of Notches – The Magino Village Story

Shinsuke Ogawa, 1986, 222’

“What Ogawa’s Sundial Carved by a Thousand Years of Notches (and the Yamagata Documentary Film Festival that it inspired) suggests is that new transnational networks must be built, no matter how unprofessional and utopian, in order to wrest at least some of the power away from the core o

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Sennen kizami no hidokei – Magino-mura monogatari

The Sundial Carved with a Thousand Years of Notches – The Magino Village Story

Ogawa Productions, 1986, 222’

“The documentary we have been shooting for the last seven or eight years hopes to recreate the natural features – rice, earth, water – and recreate the stories sleeping in the hearts of the villagers.

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