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The Sculpture of Place & Time

A dancer is dancing in front of the mirror. He moves dynamically, but the camera remains stationary. The fixed frame keeps capturing time and place as lived by the dancer, so cinema can film even what lies out of the frame and goes beyond it. A prayer is heard from nowhere and the storm sets in.

The Sculpture of time and place is an experimental film that preserves spacetime as experienced by Prumsodun Ok, a Cambodian-American dancer based in Phnom Penh. It confronts the question of what cinema can do for the temporality as lived by the other.

  • Tatsuhito Utagawa
    Director
  • Tatsuhito Utagawa
    Producer
  • Prumsodun Ok
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 54 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 22, 2020
  • Country of Origin:
    Japan
  • Country of Filming:
    Cambodia
  • Language:
    Central Khmer
  • Shooting Format:
    Degital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020
    Rotterdam
    Netherlands
    January 29, 2020
    World Premire
    Perspective
Director Biography - Tatsuhito Utagawa

Tatsuhito UTAGAWA (1990, Japan) is a filmmaker who has mainly worked in the field of documentary. After graduating from the visual art department, Ritsumeikan University, he started his career as a filmmaker with TV documentary programs by NHK, commercial and art films. His first middle-length documentary “Cambodian Textiles” has been screened at numerous international film festivals. His short documentary film "The Sculpture of Place & Time" has been world premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020.

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