kopitoto | 2020 | Japan & USA | 8 mn
A wintry forest comes to life in this delightfully weird collaboration between JuJu and Lisa Kusanagi and Yvonne Meier. Their choreography of snow and ice, trees and sunlight, body parts and forest creatures evokes the playful illusionism.
A film by Kusanagi Sisters & Yvonne Meier
Country of Origin: Japan & USA
Directors: Lisa Kusanagi, JuJu Kusanagi, Yvonne Meier
Writer: Lisa Kusanagi
Executive Producers: Yvonne Meier, Lisa Kusanagi
Directors of photography: Koichi Makino, Hiroyuki Azegami
Editor: Lisa Kusanagi, JuJu Kusanagi
Music: Ran Bagno
Production Designer: Lisa Kusanagi
Costume Designers: Kerry Chipman, Minako Kusanagi
Hairstylist: Cozy Baba
Makeup Artists: Lisa Kusanagi, JuJu Kusanagi
Poster Designer: Naomi Shalev
Crew: Minako Kusanagi, Shoji Kusanagi, Ken-ichi Takano, Tomonori Kobayashi, Norimitsu Koganei
Location Manager: Lisa Kusanagi
Location: Iiyama, Nagano, Japan
Sponsored by:
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award 2018 (NY, USA)
Yume Covo Inc. (Tokyo, Japan)
Nabekura Kougen Heights Mori-no-Ie (Nagano, Japan)
