With a body of work spanning almost twenty years, the Japanese artist, currently based in Canada, Daichi SaitoSaïto has become one of the most important analog filmmakers of our time, both for the originality and solidity of his film work and for the political significance of his approach to the materials used in filmmaking, something he pursues through the filmmakers' collective, Double Negative, which he co-founded. The collective's principles are also evident throughout his work: the quest to situate cinema within human experience, in the eye, hand, and heartbeat. In his case, he also focuses on the ear, on sound life. These human experiences center primarily on nature, on the earth, the sky, plant life, the minerals that compose the stones that form mountains. With a background as both a filmmaker and a philosopher, it is no surprise that Saïto is always seeking to find the essence of things. The constant flickering of his images, which completely denaturalizes the gaze, invites us to perceive nature as something new, as a new luminous impulse, pure sensory power. His latest work, earthearthearthIt will be shown for the first time in Spain. It is an exploration of the passage of time on planet Earth, a breathtaking experience that invites us to lose ourselves as human beings in the landscape, with the certainty that, compared to geological time, we are nothing. (Lucía Salas)

ALL THAT RISES Daïchi Saïto, Canada, 2007, 8 min, original version [16 mm]

TREES OF SYNTAX Daïchi Saïto, Canada, 2009, 10 min, original version [35 mm]

ENGRAM OF RETURNING Daïchi Saïto, Canada, 2016, 19 min, original version [35 mm]

EARTHEARTHEARTH Daïchi Saïto, Canada, 2021, 30 min, original version [35 mm]

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05.06.21 · 21:00h