The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) backdrop

The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

Directed by C.W. Winter, Anders Edström

Starring Tayoko Shiojiri, Hiroharu Shikata

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.