The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books.

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Release Date

Jun 22, 2022

Runtime

8h 1m

Director

C.W. Winter, Anders Edström

Original Title

仕事と日（塩谷の谷間で)

Country

Hong Kong, Japan, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America

Company

Silver Salt Films