Documentary: Renew—Kyoto Experiment 2021 Spring

Renew—Kyoto Experiment 2021 Spring

52 minutes, 2021

Direction, Videography, Editing | Takuya Matsumi, Kim Song Gi, Yoshitaka Shimada
Video Production | slide//show
Planning and Production | Kyoto Experiment

About the Film

A documentary film that follows the period up to the opening of international performing arts festival Kyoto Experiment 2021 Spring, the eleventh edition of the festival and first to be headed by new directors. Amid preparations to realize a new festival, including a restructuring of the program and new logo, the team is forced to make various changes and cancellations due to the effects of Covid-19. Centering on interviews with festival staff, the documentary records the pursuit of a festival structure and ‘experimental’ artistic expression　for the future of the performing arts under difficult circumstances.

Available to view on THEATRE for ALL
Viewing period: 2021/02/26~2021/08/31
Accessibility: Japanese and English subtitles
Free

Direction, Videography, Editing | Takuya Matsumi, Kim Song Gi, Yoshitaka Shimada
Assistant Videographer | So Fukuoka
Lighting | Ippei Nakamura
Sound Recording | Kim Song Gi,Yoshitaka Shimada
Still Photographer | Yuki Moriya
Sound created by | Hair Lynch
Sound Adjustment and Mixing | Toru Koda
Subtitle written by | Takumi Watanabe
Graphic design | Kentaro Nakamura
Project Managers | Hanabi Takemiya, Ruka Maeda (Kyoto Experiment), Kanako Yamasaki
Subtitle Production | Palabra Inc.
Video Production | slide//show
Planning and Production | Kyoto Experiment

Explainer Video

EXPERIENCE of EXPERIMENT 10 years of experimentation and experinece

Kyoto-based artist Yuichi Kinoshita of Kinoshita Kabuki interviews former program director and founder of Kyoto Experiment Yusuke Hashimoto about the origins of the festival. The two discuss what an “experimental” performing arts festival (as covered in the main documentary film) involves.

Available to view on THEATRE for ALL
Viewing period: 2021/02/26~