The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

An eight-hour fiction shot for a total of twenty-seven weeks, over a period of fourteen months, in a village population forty-seven in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a geographic description of the work and non-work of a farmer. A portrait, over five seasons, of a family, of a terrain, of a soundscape, and of duration itself. A film-as-adaptive-landscape. A georgic in five books.

• C.W. WinterDirector
• Anders EdströmDirector
• C.W. WinterWriter

• Tayoko ShiojiriTayoko
• Hiroharu ShikataHiroharu
• Ryo KaseRyo Sasaki
• Mai EdströmMai
• Kaoru IwahanaJunji
• Jun TsunodaKagawa
• Masahiro MotokiNeighbour