Uno Port Art Films (UPAF) is a DIY outdoor summer film festival/screening series that appears biennially around the Uno Port, in Tamano-city, Okayama, Japan, which is a town in the mainland only 20min by ferry to the world famous Naoshima Contemporary Art Site. We held UPAF almost every year at a huge vacant lot by the Uno Port until 2016, but the town changed and we lost access to the lot. After traveling to Okayama City and even to Tokyo, we are back in Uno Port, our home town this year!
The loose mini-theme of the 9th UPAF is “the Shape of Care.”
Care could mean to take care of someone, cherish a community, really to take care of ourselves (but not being able to), feel as if being taken for granted, receive, give, share, etc. The share of care can be a spiral going towards somewhere, a bouncing pendulum or a seesaw, or going one step forward and two steps backward… what shape would you imagine? During the Corona which could isolate us, I really appreciated my neighbors and my neighborhood community. At the same time, I lost a few good friends but couldn’t go see them. I felt sad that I couldn’t see them and give any care, and felt guilty. We provide care… for whom? Perhaps for ourselves. As we curated this year’s program, I thought about those things, then I started to feel the shape of the films too. I wonder what shape you’d feel from watching those films.
ONLINE UPAF Special Site
Limited distribution from September 3-11: Please refer to the following special site for details on the online screening.