We Don’t Care About Music Anyways …

Vancouver Premiere

Screening Time
Saturday, May 29, 7:15pm

Film Trailer

Documentary / France / 2009 / 80 minutes
Director: Cédric Dupire & Gaspard Kuentz
Starring: Sakamoto Hiromichi, Otomo Yoshihide, Yamakawa Fuyuki, L?K?O, Numb, Saidrum, Takehisa Ken, Shimazaki Tomoko
Produced by: Studio Shaiprod
Website: www.studio-shaiprod.com

“We make it and that’s all.”

Tokyo, 20?? A.D

A desert, a rubbish dump, a quick view of a megalopolis. Remotely, a building left to a neglected state, filled with yesterday’s rememberance and childhood remains, a deserted school. Sakamoto Hiromichi is wandering with his cello and bow. Step by step, the music fills in the empty space. He draws his instrument behind him, its endpin slips on the cement in a weeping lament. Sakamoto hurries towards his stool as the bowing gets faster and faster. A sudden sound explodes into the air as the endpin breaks a window…

From radical turntablism (Otomo Yoshihide) to laptop music innovation (Numb), via classical instrument hijacking (Sakamoto Hiromichi), Tokyo’s avant-garde music scene is internationally known for its boldness. While introducing some of the greatest musicians of this scene, We Don’t Care About Music Anyway… offers a kaleidoscopic view of Tokyo, confronting music and noise, sound and image, reality and representation, documentary and fiction.

Beyond the music and beyond its performance, the future and mode of existence of a city, and society as a whole, are in motion.

Festival Entry and Award
ONE+ONE Award, Entrevues 2009 (Belfort/France)
Locarno International Film Festival, Critics Week 2009

About Cedric Dupire
Cédric Dupire was born in 1979. In 2003, he went to India to listen to traditional music of Rajasthan. From this encounter happened his first full-length documentary , Musafir (84’, DV, 2005). In 2006, he visited Fadouba Oularé, Guinean drummer from Faranah. He co-directed a documentary film about him with Matthieu Imbert-Bouchard : The right man in the right place. This documentary film project is his latest production.

About Gaspard Kuentz
Gaspard Kuentz was born in 1981. In 2003, he settled in Tokyo to study cinema at Eiga Bigakko school. In 2005, he directed the short fiction film Chinpira Is Beautiful for Yakuza 23 Ku series distributed and sold in Japan (Bandai Editions). We don’t care about music anyway… is his first feature length documentary.