The Boat

Moving into an old house in the rural countryside, videographer Komai converses with its former owner Umemoto, drawing from personal memories to discuss histories, cartographies and the passage of time, reflecting upon the changing tides of tradition and progress within generational spans of the town’s history.

A great adventure in the comfort of a room thanks to a microscope. The infinite universe that expands if you look at a medaka, a leaf, an udon and a stone. Before you know it, you are lost in the small world around you. A big world. This work is a diary of observation from the sowing of the Fusenkazura seed to the withering away.

A lonely filmmaker who keeps making films by himself, and remote stars which watch over him. His small filmmaking dream that nobody knows eventually leads to a vast universe.