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mmm
mmm traces an eclectic constellation of clouds across Japanese cinema from the 1920s to the present. Taking inspiration from the 35mm film materials of physicist and cloud expert Masanao Abe (1891–1966) and from scientist Tapio Schneider's speculation that climate change could one day produce a cloudless sky, the film treats formlessness as an essential actor in the history of cinema.
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Credits
Commissioned by: Asian Film Archive
Project consultants: Daniel Hui and Matthew Barrington
Screenings & Exhibitions
2026
- Selected 16, Barbican, London, UK
- A Machine as Complex as the World Itself, Korskirken, Bergen Assembly, NO (11/9)
2025
- Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, One Bangkok Forum, TH
2024
- AFIAS | SMIF Spain Moving Images Festival, Madrid, ES
- Light Matter Film Festival, Kino Palais, Buenos Aires, AR
- mmm, Mal Seh’n Kino / SCHAUT! Exhibition Space, Nippon Connection, Frankfurt, DE
- Minikino, Bali, ID
- Monographs, San Art Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, VN
2023
- Arkipel — Jakarta International Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, ID
- Forum Film Dokumenter Jogjakarta, ID
- Dharamshala International Film Festival, McLeod Ganj, Himachal Pradesh, IN
- Monographs 2023 showcase, Oldham Theatre, the National Archives of Singapore, SG