Keiji Haino

Documentary about Japanese musician Keiji Haino. Includes clips of live performances and extracts from dozens of hours of interviews with Haino and members of Fushitsusha.

3 performances solo and one with Keiji Haino.

Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.

From 1988 to 1994, near Père Lachaise cemetery on the eastern side of Paris, the Etablissements phonographiques de l’Est (Eastern Phonographic Venue), aka EPE, was a multidisciplinary venue hosting the crême de la crême of the international experimental, radical, industrial, noise, avant-punk scene. A record shop during the day, an underground venue at night hosting in its basement gigs, performances, screenings of video art and experimental cinema, readings, bondage workshops, fanzine exhibitions. At the junction of late 80’s and early 90’s, EPE saw the end of industrial music and the birth of the still highly influential avant-punk scene.

Recorded on August 18, 2008 at After Beat, Tokyo.

Recorded live on December 19th, 2008 at Mission's, Tokyo.

Live performance at the Shibuya La Mama club in Tokyo on 26 September 1991.

Keiji Haino, live in Toronto, June 22, 2011. A single roll of film, shot one frame at a time. Special thanks to Keiji Haino and Adam Rosen.