Silent Blue(2022)

Name: Silent Blue
Director: Kyoko Kasuya
Released: 2022-01-01
Duration: 14 min
Cast: Félix Rudel, Danilo Sekic, Pauline Rodet, Sylvain Baumann

Félix Rudel Danilo Sekic Pauline Rodet Sylvain Baumann

This film is a sequel to “Listen to the Voices of the Sea” (2019) the first work in art video, based on a diary of a Japanese kamikaze pilot, Hachiro Sasaki. Kamikaze means wind of God in Japanese. During WW2 Japanese pilots attacked American aircraft carriers and army ships by dive-bombing their airplanes. For the realization of the second project, I transcribed a part of the diary of another kamikaze soldier from southern Japan, Norimitsu Takushima. By putting in his place a fictional French character, Noé Teissier, this translation sits in a broader contemporary context. The film ultimately reflects relationships to life, to death, to love speaking towards the universal experiences of any soldier.