Futsu no Seikatsu

Synopsis

Ordinary life repeats itself every day. The succession of moments that we live out over and over again is never the same, and everything changes and wavers. The moment we touch something, our consciousness can go to a place that does not exist anywhere in the past or the future. In an uncertain and fluctuating world, only the feeling of the body touching something, which exists only in this present reality, can be recognised as “now”. That moment is lovely.

Biography and Films

Yoriko Mizushiri (Japan, 1984) is an independent filmmaker and a graduate of Joshibi University of Art and Design. Her main influences include the manga artist Yasuji Tanioka and the painter Tomoko Kashiki. Between 2012 and 2014 she developed a trilogy exploring the sense of touch, comprising Futon (2012), Snow Hut (2013) and Veil (2014), works that earned her nominations and awards at major animation festivals such as Berlinale, Annecy and Zagreb. In 2021, her film Anxious Body was screened in competition at l’Alternativa.