THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

To put “landscape theory” [fukeiron] into practice, Adachi focused on the story of a nineteen-year-old boy, Norio Nagayama, who had recently been convicted for the 1969 murders of four people in four different Japanese cities. Rather than filming the protagonist of the film directly, Adachi decided to turn the camera 180 degrees and film the landscapes that the young man may have encountered during his wanderings, from his birth until his arrest. “It’s a very simple matter,” declared Adachi.  “All the landscapes which one faces in one’s daily life, even those such as the beautiful sites shown on a postcard, are essentially related to the figure of a ruling power.”

various/ see Baudelaire/Anabasis