Black Flowers

Directed by Baptiste Bessette
Produced by Zeugma Films
Genres : Documentary - Runtime : 36 min
Production year : 2010

Director

Baptiste
Bessette

Actors

Osamu
Otsuki

(Le danseur)

Tokihiko
Hara

(Le neveu de l'écrivain)

Nobuko
Murakami

(L'interprète)

Synopsis

Baptiste Bessette went to Hiroshima to question the city about the shadows of its past and the cogs of its future. A vital lead: the ginkgo biloba, this prehistoric tree about which we say that it is the only one to have survived the disaster and its leaves remind us of a butterfly.

About

Read texts extracted from Flowers summer of Tamiki Hara (Brigitte Allioux's translation) and of Prelude to the destruction of Tamiki Hara (Rose - Marie Makino-Fayolle's translation).

Production photos (1)

Black Flowers

Production and distribution

Associate production company : Zeugma Films

Full credits

Executive Producer : Michel David
Screenwriter : Baptiste Bessette
Voice-overs : Osamu Otsuki, Baptiste Bessette
Director of Photography : Nicolas Rey
Sound Recordist : Rémi Stengel
Production Managers : Marilyn Belbenoît, Diane Veyrat
Editor : Kenji Lefèvre-Hasegawa
Sound Editor : Rémi Stengel
Sound Mixer : Rémi Stengel

Technical details

Short film
Genres : Documentary
Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Research - experimental
Themes : Nature, History
Production language : French, Japanese
Nationality : 100% French (France)
Production year : 2010
Runtime : 36 min
Visa number : 119.619
Visa issue date : 05/10/2010
Production formats : Super 16 - DV-CAM
Screening format : DV-CAM - DigiBeta
Color type : Color
Aspect ratio : 4/3
Sound format : Stereo
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