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 Note
gFeh - the first long feature film directed by Kanji NAKAJIMA - was completed in 1994 and highly regarded among a lot of International Film Festivals.
Poetically representing a new relationship between human beings and things buried in oblivion after doing their duties, this work approaches the essence of 'science' and 'civilization.'
gFeh is nothing but a requiem for the past civilization, without any superabundant dialogues but with overwhelming beautiful images.
Story
The place is an industrial area, where rusting steels flood under the cloudy sky. In front of a factory that stands groaning louder, gan old painterh sits quietly waiting for something, with his white canvas leaning on the easel.
He meets ga girlh trying to bury her broken toy.
The memory of the factory, which has been disused for a long time, brings back to life, through the girl's mother telling a picture book story.
And there comes a time for the soul to repose...
Introduction (from 43th Manheim International Film Festival Catalog)
"Nostalgia is the space where living and non-living things used to
exist in hamony" "Fe" is the chemical symbol for iron, a
bulky material used for industrial purposes. But here, in an abandoned
steelworks, time and rust chew away at what is seemingly indestructible,
creating disturbing, yet very poetic and beautiful images, poetic like
the conversations between the old painter and the young girl.
The calm after the storm - post-cultural doubts, even in Japan.
Cast
Eiji Maruyama / Reina Oshibe / Fumiko Kawahara / Kouichi Adachi
Staff
Director / Screenwriter / Composer : Kanji Nakajima
Director of Photography : Kanji Nakajima / Kazuma Yamaoka
Producer : Yoshikazu Kobayashi
Art Director : Akira Katsuta
Sound Engineer : Hideki Koga / Yumi Yokoyama
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