Celebrated Japanese filmmaker Naomi Kawase shares her unproduced project Oh Debu, a comedy about Aya, a woman wrestling with her weight and romantic ideals. This stems from ideas sparked after her 2015 film Sweet Bean. Missing Pictures: Naomi Kawase forms one episode in a five-part indie VR documentary series that revives unrealized films through volumetric capture.
Directors like Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming-Liang, Catherine Hardwicke, Lee Myung-Se, and Kawase explain key movie elements and reasons for abandonment. Viewers explore these standalone stories in any order during the 14-minute seated experience. Fans of cinematic history and filmmaker insights find a focused look into creative minds here.
The most celebrated female filmmaker from Japan revisits a project that she envisioned after her 2015 film Sweet Bean. Oh Debu tells the story of Aya, an over romantic woman very complexed by her weight. Through this story, Naomi Kawase wanted to give herself a challenge trying to make a comedy, far from her naturalist, poetic previous work.
MISSING PICTURES is a 5-part documentary series in VR that brings to life unmade films. Shot in volumetric capture, the filmmakers Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming-Liang, Catherine Hardwicke, Lee Myung-Se and Naomi Kawase narrate to us some key points of the movie and why it was never made.
What’s MISSING PICTURES?
* An immersive dive into the mind of some of the most interesting filmmakers of our time
* A unique documentary about history of Cinema
* Produced by ATLAS V, the award-winning studio that brought Gloomy Eyes, Battlescar, Madrid Noir, Ayahuasca - Kosmik Journey
* Five independent episodes, to be discovered in any order
A series directed by Clément Deneux from an original idea by Joseph Beauregard
Coproduced by Atlas V, ARTE France, BBC, PTS, Serendipity Films, Wild Fang Films, Giioii
With the support from CNC, Pictanovo, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Procirep-Angoa, TAICCA, Film Fund Luxembourg, RAPA and Ministry of Science and ICT (Republic of Korea)
Duration: 14 minutes
To be experienced seated
