Before Doze Off

Epilogue to Akira Hoshino’s “Closed School Trilogy”. Akira Hoshino is the best kept secret of Japanese experimental cinema. He established the independent film group HAIRO in the early 1970s and has been active for over 50 years, but his work has only been seen by a very limited audience. These works depict the melancholy and nostalgia of the vanishing in a poetic vision. The Trilogy also illustrates the unique interpretation and development of in-camera editing technique in the “personal cinema” and “new cinema” movements that emerged in Japan in the 1970s.