The programme for Sunday 28 April
At 7.00 pm on the stage of the Teatro Nuovo, the Japanese musician will be performing GIFT: the project that birthed Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist.
Plus the unmissable restored version of Three Seasons and an exceptional Chinese hat-trick: Wonder Family, The Midsummer's Voice and The Movie Emperor.
A brilliant multi-instrumentalist capable of ranging from dream pop to ambient jazz and of walking the boundary between East and West. Sunday the 28th of April at 19:00, Eiko Ishibashi will be the protagonist of highly anticipated live set GIFT: the incredible project which gave birth to Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Evil Does Not Exist, winner of the Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize in Venice and released in Italian cinemas under the double banner of Teodora Film and Tucker Film!
Eiko Ishibashi's show won't just be a concert-event in the middle of a film festival: it will be a genuine “cinematic concert” - a unique live performance where musical architectures dance delicately over images and images dance delicately over musical architectures. Eiko will be at the corner of the stage together with all her electronic gear and all her artistic brilliance while sequences from GIFT - the silent film that Hamaguchi wrote and directed for her - are shown on the big screen of the Teatro Nuovo "Giovanni di Udine" theatre.
Born in 1974, a singer, singer-songwriter and soundtrack composer (including the soundtrack of Drive My Car, the film which won Hamaguchi the 2021 Oscar) Ishibashi Eiko has spent years tirelessly exploring every kind of musical nuance. Over that time she has collaborated with leading figures in experimental music such as Haino Keiji, Charlemagne Palestine, Merzbow, Giovanni Di Domenico, Oren Ambarchi and Jim O’Rourke.
Obviously, this fifth day will also be packed with unmissable films, including, let's not forget, a formidable Chinese hat-trick (Wonder Family, The Midsummer's Voice and The Movie Emperor, starring superstar Andy Lau) as well as the restored version of masterpiece Three Seasons, the first Vietnamese film released in the USA after the embargo. A poetic reflection on the past, present and future of the city of Saigon whose protagonists include the legendary Harvey Keitel.