Japanese painter, novelist, and poet Murayama Kaita passed away in 1919 at the age of 22, leaving behind a series of impressive and timeless works. In his recent film, Sato Hisayasu published a surreal, cross temporal, and meta level article on this artist, his originality, and his legacy. Dear Kaita Ablaze, we have gathered Azami, a young woman obsessed with Murayama painting, Saku, a young man who can hear unusual frequencies and claim to be Murayama or his spiritual imprint, and a group of young performers with psychic abilities. They recreated the works of Murayama while performing a dance while driving to a mysterious cave called Agarsen. Sato Hisayasu (Dreams of the Eyes, Muscles, Bedroom) is known for his little finger and exploration of madness and desire, and he returned to IFFR. Dear Kaita Ablaze is super dense, obsessed, motivated, effortlessly blending surrealism with science fiction and mysticism, stacking seemingly unrelated events and encounters together to form a huge climax https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2024/films/dear-kaita-ablaze
