© 2024 Daisuke Kosugi
The Lost Dreams of Naoki Hayakawa
16mm scanned to HD video
Duration: 25 minutes
September 2016, at The 11th Gwangju Biennale The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?), Gwangju, South Korea
In collaboration with Ane Hjort Guttu
Synopsis
Art director Naoki Hayakawa works 16 hours daily in a creative, neo-totalitarian advertisement company in Tokyo. The working pressure causes a mental condition between sleep and wakefulness where he has strange and wonderful dreams, creating a mixed state between reality and phantasy. When he tells his superiors about his state of mind, he is told to exploit his dreams by using ideas from them in his work. This triggers a crisis as it occurs to him that his whole self is being instrumentalized.
A film by Ane Hjort Guttu and Daisuke Kosugi
Screenplay: Ane Hjort Guttu/Daisuke Kosugi
Director/Producer: Ane Hjort Guttu
Line producer/Consultant: Daisuke Kosugi
Executive producer: Elisabeth Kleppe/Aldeles AS
Cast: Daisuke Kosugi
Cinematography: Marte Vold FNF
Editing: Jon Endre Mørk
Sound/Sound design: Øyvind Rydland
Composer: Mari Kvien Brunvoll
Colorist/online: Christian Berg-Nielsen
Produced with the support of Norwegian Film Institute (NFI), Western Norway Film Centre, Arts Council Norway, Free Speech Foundation, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Gwangju Biennale for Contemporary Art, Office for Contemporary Art Norway.