A Shape of Time - the composer Jo Kondo

Synopsis

Jo Kondo (*1947) is one of the most interesting composers of contemporary music in Japan. His music is composed intuitively and at the same time it is highly abstract. Without clear directionality and at the same time not without form. For a Japanese audience it sounds “Western” and in the West it is regarded “Japanese”. A music in between categories. Like Kondo’s music the film is shifting between places and directions: a concert in the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, an elaborate sushi bar in Tokyo, a CD-production in a Cologne radio station, the Zuisenji temple in Kondo’s neighborhood in Kamakura. Kondo wants his music to appear “normal”, without spectacular surface or narrative elements. A concept of “normality” you may also find in the films of Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, who – like Kondo – spent most of his life in Kamakura.

Main Cast

Jo Kondo

himself

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Camera	Camera Operator	Ludger Blanke
	Director of Photography	Martin Zawadzki
Directing	Director	Viola Rusche Hauke Harder
Editing	Editor	Viola Rusche
Sound	Sound	Hauke Harder
Department	Role	Name

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