Special Sesion

Special Sesion

TRANSCINE

TransCine brings together film practices from the emerging cinemas or cinemas of the south, without regard to format, that fracture the traditional way of storytelling through the reinvention, appropriation or recreation of discourse or through forms of cinegraphy which over time have come to be considered foundational of certain trends or cinematographies. This year the Transcine section takes a look at the multi-faceted figure of Yukio Mishima.
  • The Blue Speck of the Unknown

    The Blue Speck of the Unknown (El punto azul de lo desconocido)

    Gabriel Santamarina

    In northeastern Japan there is a place called Osore-zan, Fear Mountain. There, generation after generation, the itako, blind female shamans, are venerated as spiritual mediums and living oracles. Their lives are governed by sacrifice and devotion to all those who seek them out.
    Gabriel Santamarina, with his The Blue Speck of the Unknown, takes us on a journey to Osore-zan to ask the itako to try to locate the spirit of the writer Yukio Mishima, with the aim of capturing his essence, his tormented genius, the reasons behind his ritual suicide of 1970.

    MEXICO /SPAIN 2007. DIGIBETA. Color. 30’

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  • Yûkoku or Rite of Love and Death

    Yûkoku or Rite of Love and Death (Yûkoku)

    Yukio Mishima, Masaki Domoto

    Yûkoku, which literally means patriotism, is the only film made by the writer Yukio Mishima. Destroyed, damned and practically forgotten in Japan, the film was recovered in 2005. Following the storyline of Mishima’s story Patriotism, the film shows, in a highly-stylised fashion, the final sexual encounter and then the seppuku of a young officer devoted to the way of the Samurai, the Bushido. The same end was chosen by the writer for himself on 25 November 1970.

    JAPAN 1965. DVD. B/N_B&W. 28’

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