Light Trace

“To all my dear friends.” In this diary-like record of a year with the family, small glimmering fragments of mundane daily life begin to form a magical and never-before seen landscape.

A film by Shuhei Hatano / 2008 / DV / 10min. This film is about the autonomic nervous system and shit.

2012 / Japan / 100min / HD / color / 16:9 / stereo

There are 10 people who face the camera and talk about their memories rooted in the soil of Tottori prefecture. The memories of their lives, from the pre-war era to the present day, mesh together to form the film.

Ladies and gentlemen, we're floating in the world.

Ryuichi Sakamoto | async | International short film competition. This film is about the tomato ketchup manufacturing process.

Tokyo Documentary Film Festival 2018 Short Film Competition Grand Prize Winner. A war widow’s letter to her fallen husband remained unopened and left a memorandum. The scenery of living beings weaving sound, light, and ghost shadows all over the place. A film and a poem to those who ever lived in this town.

Oct. 2016 / Japan / color / silent /a film by Shuhei Hatano. A change goes past and the next one will come soon.

2017 / Japan / color / stereo / a film by Shuhei Hatano. 1 minute documentary. You can't see them from the city side, you can only see them from the river side. Located in Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan.

A film by Shuhei Hatano / music by Katsuaki Maegaki / Produced by Santana, Cotoya Zakka. Was our youth a ghost?

Memories of a village sunk in a dam.

A film by Shuhei Hatano / music by Shibata / Produced by Santana, Cotoya Zakka. Your summer is endless, but the end will come.

2011 / Japan / 65min / HD / color / 16:9 / stereo

July 2015 / Japan / B&W / silent / a film by Shuhei Hatano. My eye is your finger.