NFB Collection
Submerge: Kami No Yu
20031 min 24 secFilm: Experimental, Animation
Direction: Cindy Mochizuki
Production: David VerrallMichael Fukushima
A "water poem" set in Mochizuki's familiarity with Japanese ofuro hot
baths. The film explores water as a medium and repository for collective
stories and histories, and for their sharing. Created in a hybrid new media
form using animation, video and split screens.
Submerge: Kami No Yu was made for Hothouse 1,
the NFB’s program for emerging filmmakers, whose central theme was “Water and
Our Relationship to It.”.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > Japanese Origins
- Literature and Language > Legends, Myths, and Tales
Credits
- director
- Cindy Mochizuki
- mentoring director
- Christopher Hinton
- sound
- Lance Neveu
- music
- Lance Neveu
- production collaborator
- Richard Lesage
- Phyllis Lewis
- digital imaging team
- Jean-Marc Brosseau
- Susan Gourley
- Ines Hardtke
- Pierre Plouffe
- post-production
- Shelley Craig
- Denis Gathelier
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- administration
- Gisèle Guilbault
- Elaine Largie
- Renée Major
- executive producer
- David Verrall
- producer
- Michael Fukushima