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Held every October in the city of Matsuyama (island of Shikoku), the Dogo Autumn Festival is one of the most violent religious festivals celebrated in Japan. Eight teams of men carrying massive portable wood shrines that can weigh up to a ton collide them together in a holy battle, leaving many injured and exhausted. UZU is an immersive documentary lm that focuses on the physical and spiritual experience of the festival from its inside. A thrilling ride into its violence as well as a penetrating glance on its meaning, UZU propounds a unique cinematic experience, between sensory ethnography and "war" reporting.

Born in 1981, in Paris, France. Moving to Japan in 2003, he completes the ction course of the Tokyo lm school Eiga Bigakko. In parallel with his lm activities, he gets involved with Tokyo improvised and noise music scene, leading him to direct his music documentary project WE DON’T CARE ABOUT MUSIC ANYWAY... in 2009, still acclaimed as a new perspective on both avant-garde music and documentary. In 2014, he shoots KINGS OF THE WIND & ELECTRIC QUEENS in a cattle fair in North India. Bene ting from his intimate knowledge of Japan and East Asia, he now develops in this region of the world hybrid documentary projects mixing visual anthropology with ctional and experimental approaches.