Mirrors 2021

The Balloon

Hiromichi Nakao I 2017 I 28'

SYNOPSIS

Great adventures in the comfort of your room. The microscope makes it possible. This work is a diary of observation from the sowing of a fusenkazura seed to its withering (Hiromichi Nakao).

BIOGRAPHY

Hiromichi Nakao

HIROMICHI NAKAO was born in Japan in 1979. After making the short films The Ship (2015) and The Balloon (2017), he directed his debut feature Ghosts (Obake) in 2019.

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With this filmic miniature, Hiromichi Nakao built the main foundations of his peculiar and authentic cinematographic poetics, based on a passionate love of films and homemade or, even better, artisanal atmos- pheres and modes. The bewitching vision of everyday life, the narrative structure in the form of a diary film, the tone between naïve and contemplative, the mixture of animation and real images... all of this is already consolidated in these short stories, which explore such fragile and unexpected pleasures as raising a plant, watching balloons float, sailing a toy ship, or making a film about each of these activities. GABRIEL DOMÉNECH

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