Instruments of a Beating Heart (2024)
- Directed by
- Ema Ryan Yamazaki
- Genre
- documentary film, musical film
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 23 min
- Rating
- 6.8 of 10 from 29 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary follows first graders at a Tokyo public elementary school as they prepare to perform Beethoven's Ode to Joy for a ceremony welcoming new students. The film captures their struggles and growth through the final semester music assignment.
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What happens
Instruments of a Beating Heart is a 2024 Japanese documentary short film directed by Ema Ryan Yamazaki. Edited down from Yamazaki's 2023 feature The Making of a Japanese, the film documents the challenge presented to the first graders in a Tokyo public elementary school of performing "Ode to Joy" at the ceremony for the new incoming first graders, as their assignment for the final semester. Instruments of a Beating Heart had its world premiere on June 14, 2024, in the Shorts Program: One-of-a-Kind of DC/DOX Film Festival 2024. It won Best Short Documentary at the 40th IDA Documentary Awards and was nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the 97th Academy Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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