yoshi oida | have you seen the moon?

"Have You Seen the Moon" portrays the Japanese actor, director and teacher, Yoshi Oida, now living in France.
Trained from early childhood in the traditional kyogen acting style of the Japanese No–theatre, he has now been working brilliantly for almost thirty years with the "Magician of the European Theatre", Peter Brook, in his Centre Internatio– nale de Création Théâtrale in Paris.
This documentary deals with Oida`s struggle with different views of art and theatre in the West and in the East. It shows the different roles played in them by people and performers, which ulti– mately leads to different questions being asked and answers being found in each of the cultures.


		Claudia Willke
		Director and Producer
		M.A. in literature and political science (Tübingen) M.A. in film studies (Hamburg) section: documentary
		Willke Film
		founded in 1987 in Hamburg specialises in the development, realization and production of short and full-length creative documentaries focuses on portraits and other documentaries in the field of the arts, music, philosophy and society collaborates with TV-channels, film funds, international co-producers and distributors has production experience in Europe, Africa, Japan and Northern America
		Selection of realized productions:
	1991:	Come Dance with Me
		80 min., 16mm 1st prize for a documentary at the International Dance Screen Frankfurt 1991 Jury Award at the Leipzig Documentary Festival, 1991 Ecumenical Award at the Leipzig Documentary Festival, 1991 Women's Association Award, International Documentary Festival, St. Petersburg, 1993
	1992:	The Conquest of Emptiness
		45 min., 16mm rated "especially worthy" by the German Board of Film Censors shown at several international festivals in Germany, Switzerland, USA
	96/97:	Enjoy Your Symptom
		52 min., Beta SP shown at international festivals in Germany, Slovenia
	1998:	Have You Seen The Moon?
		60 min., 16mm/Video shown at international festivals in Germany, Japan, Italy
	2000:	Nights of Long Shadows
		60 min., Beta SP, 16:9 German-French-Norwegian Co-Production
	2001:	Living with The Gods
		58 min., Digi-Beta, 16:9 German-Austrian Co-Production
	2001:	Nothing Special
		52 min., Beta SP, 16:9


	Script / Director:	Claudia Willke
	Camera:	Bernd Meiners
		Vladimir Majdandzic
	Sound Recordist:	Claudia Willke
	Locations Japan:	Haruko Oda
	Montage:	Andrew Bird
	Sound Mixer:	Roland Musolff
	Prod. Manager:	Peter Stockhaus
	Produced by:	Willke Film
		© 1998


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