THE FOREST IN BETWEEN
by Antoine Barraud
2010, France, Color, Video, 53 min

Synopsis

« The Forest in Between » is a journey into the very heart of the philosophy of one of the the greatest Japanese filmmaker, Kohei Oguri, director of ‘The Sting of Death ‘(Gand Prix Winner Cannes 1990). Inspired by an animist sensibility and a constant search for harmony, he redefines the essence of a utopian cinema in a very personal, poetic and serene way.

Festivals

FID Marseille 2010

Torino Film Festival 2010

Semaine International du Documentaire Fes 2011

Instituts Français de Yokohama et Fukuoka (Japon)

Director’s Biography

Antoine Barraud directed his first short Monstre in2005, immediately followed by Déluge and Monstre Numéro Deux, presented in Major French and international short film festivals such as Angers, Clermont-Ferrand, Brives, Sarajevo, Taipei, Moncton and others. In 2007 he directed and improvised mid-length feature, Song, with Lu Yi Ching, favorite actress on Tsai Ming Liang and Nobuhiro Suwa, the Japanese director of M/other. Next came a number of experimental portraits of filmmakers such as Kenneth Anger, Shuji Terayama and Koji Wakamatsu. Some of these portraits were presented at FID Marseille, Indie Lisboa and Turin, and the Cinémathèque Française brought them together for a special screening in 2010. In 2011, he and Claire Doyon co-directed Son of a Gun, a Super-8 tribute to Weegee’s New York. He co-produced, with Homegreen Films, Tsai Ming Liang’s Madame Butterfly and, along with Catherine Libert, produced the restoration of 3 previously unreleased filmsby Pierre Clémenti that went on to open the New York film festival in the Avant Garde category. Also, in 2011, he produced Stephen Dwoskin’s film Age is… He directed his first feature film The Sinkholes in 2012.

Selected Filmography

2012 LES GOUFFRES

2011 SON OF A GUN (court)

2010 LA FÔRET DES SONGES

2009 RIVER OF ANGER (court)

2009 DANIÈLE GOULD

2008 MONSTRE NUMÉRO DEUX (court)

2007 SONG

2006 DÉLUGE (court)

2005 MONSTRE (court)

Cast & Crew

Writer/Director

Antoine Barraud

Produced by

Antoine Barraud, Philippe Dijon de Monteton

Editing

Anne Souriau

Cinematography

Antoine Barraud

Sound Design

Gilles Bénardeau

Music

Andrea Monti

with

Kohei Oguri

with the support of CNAP, the Maison de la Culture du Japon and Japan Foundation