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Soul-Things 2022
Filmstill Bird in the Peninsula
Bird in the Peninsula
Atsushi Wada
A bird with a swan’s neck nestling in hands, a gently wooded peninsula of longing: Atsushi Wada’s dream and shame logic of a sexual awakening.
Filmstill Bird in the Peninsula

Bird in the Peninsula

Hantō no tori
Atsushi Wada
Soul-Things 2022
Animated Film
France,
Japan
2022
16 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A boy, a girl, a bird with a swan’s neck nestling in hands, a gently wooded peninsula of longing: Atsushi Wada’s almost speechless animation, mapped out in uniform and unicoloured chains of motifs and events, follows the dream and shame logic of a sexual awakening. There’s a sadness about the rounded and infantile figures, perhaps that of a first “little death”.

Sylvia Görke

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Director
Atsushi Wada
Editor
Atsushi Wada
Producer
Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Nobuaki Doi
Sound Design
Masumi Takino
Score
Mio Adachi
Animation
Atsushi Wada, Chikako Iwasaki, Margot Barbé, Marilou Soller, Josselin Facon