Sonic Cinema: Daïchi Saïto

Sonic Cinema and the Japan Foundation present the films of Montreal-based artist Daïchi Saïto, projected from his personal 35mm prints. About A rare encounter with a singular voice in artisanal film practice, this programme highlights Saïto’s skill in bridging metaphysical concepts with sensory experience. Born in Japan, Daïchi Saïto makes films of intense beauty and power, grounded in abstract approaches to landscape, rhythm, and perception. Produced through expressive use of optical manipulation and painstaking frame-by-frame photochemical treatments, the films in this programme carry a tactile and elemental intensity, teasing out the sensual poetry of the natural world and human subjectivity. Daïchi will join us in person for a Q&A with series curator Oliver Dickens following the screening. Programme earthearthearth , Canada 2021, 30 min., 35mm Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis , Canada 2009, 10 min., 35mm Engram of Returning , Canada, Japan 2015, 18’30 min., 35mm Programmed by Oliver Dickens for Sonic Cinema, presented in partnership with the Japan Foundation. Supported by Ithaca College. Sonic Cinema is a curatorial project by Oliver Dickens, exploring the intersection of sound and moving-image. It is dedicated to the memory of Louis Benassi. Sign up to the Sonic Cinema newsletter here . Read more Toggle Film / Video