This coming Wednesday we'll pick up where we left off somewhere in the last year: watching films together, side by side in WORM's safe space, and hopefully having a drink at the terrace of the Wunderbar afterwards.
A work that's been on my list for over a year now is N.P by Lisa Spilliaert. It's a film between dreaming and waking, based on the eponymous novel by Banana Yoshimoto. Set during one Japanese summer, four people discover how one book unites them. The film dissects the young characters' complex web of relationships and questions how a work of fiction relates to their lived reality.
Although the film doesn't contain any spoken dialogues, I wouldn't call it a silent film. Indeed, it has an incredible soundtrack, containing newly commissioned compositions by noise rock legends Wolf Eyes (US), sound artist Asuna (JP) and the synth pop group Stacks (BE).
N.P by Lisa Spilliaert | 2020 | Belgium/Japan | 59 min | silent with English intertitles
We will start the program with an episode of Growth Record, part of an ongoing video series, intended to be presented as an installation. In it, Lisa Spilliaart records the growth of a young boy. As the voice over in the first episode explains: It was his baby, that brought me back to Japan in April 2014. I could have been the mother, because around the time the child was conceived, I also had sex with him. So far the series spans seven years of growth.
I'm thrilled Lisa will be present to talk about all of this with us, coming Wednesday, at WORM.
Wednesday September 2021
Doors open: 20:15 hrs
Start screening: 20:30 hrs
pre sale tickets: WORM
Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam