KanZeOn AV Remix by Amoeba

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KanZeOn is a rarely seen view of Japanese culture revealed through ancient rituals and extraordinary musical spectacle. KanZeOn is less a documentary and more a spiritual experience. It's structured as a series of chapters or incantations, and revolves mainly around three fascinating figures and musicians - a young Buddhist priest who takes care of a temple near Kumamoto City and spends his spare time as a hip-hop DJ, a woman who has spent her life mastering an ancient Chinese bamboo wind instrument called a sho, and a Noh theatre and kotsuzumi drummer who also happens to be a huge fan of jazz.

amoeba was asked by the films directors Tim Grabham and Neil Cantwell to re-interpret this acclaimed piece of work.

Given complete access to the film footage and audio field recordings, amoeba set about re-structuring the films audio and visual narrative through a series of re-graded, re-composited montages, ritualistic loops and hypnogogic visual edits.

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