Murayama Kaita, a Japanese painter, novelist and poet died in 1919 at the age
Murayama Kaita, a Japanese painter, novelist and poet died in 1919 at the age of 22, leaving behind an impressive and time-defying body of work. In his most recent film, Sato Hisayasu offers a surreal, time-crossing, meta-layered essay on the artist, his originality and his legacy. Dear Kaita Ablaze brings together a young woman Azami obsessed with Murayama's painting, a young man Saku, who can hear unusual frequencies and claims to be Murayama or his spiritual imprint and a quartet of young performers with psychic abilities. They bond over Murayama’s work which they recreate in performative dance while driving to a mysterious cave called Agartha. Sato Hisayasu (The Eye's Dream, Muscle, The Bedroom), renowned for his pinku and exploration of madness and lust, returns to IFFR. Dear Kaita Ablaze is hyper-dense, obsessive and driven, effortlessly mashing surrealism with sci-fi and mysticism, layering seemingly unrelated events and encounters to bring them together in a monumental climax. – kijA
主演：卡罗琳·劳伦斯,汤姆·肯尼,劳伦斯先生,玛丽·乔·卡特利特,克兰西·布朗,比尔·法格巴克,罗德格尔·邦帕斯,迪·布拉雷·贝克尔,Christopher Hagen,瑞欧·亚历山大,Ryan Begay,伊利娅·伊索雷利·保利诺,马修·卡德瑞普,旺达·塞克丝,吉尔·塔利,克雷格·罗宾森,格蕾·德丽斯勒,约翰尼·诺克斯维尔,凯瑞·华格伦,Miles Hall
