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Arata Mori

photo by Julien Cott

Arata Mori

Japan, Germany/Filmmaker
A filmmaker based in Tokyo and Berlin. Having graduated from Central Saint Martins in London, Mori’s work visualises the invisible, based on themes such as representation and body, and the border between the real and the unreal. His films include "A Million" (2021, 64th Dok Leipzig Official Selection), a fake travelogue about an imaginary city projected on the real urban cities along the new silk road, and "Johatsu - Into Thin Air" (2024, DOK.fest Munich Victor Award), a feature-length documentary film, co-directed with Andreas Hartmann. He also works as a freelance director for NHK and was awarded an ACC Individual Fellowship in 2022.

2025 project

A Million Monkeys
  • "A Million" 2021 ©ArataMori

  • "camino negro" 2013 ©ArataMori

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"I, who was hikikomori 17 years ago and left Japan and became a filmmaker, return to my hometown and embark on a journey to encounter the other me, who would have been there had I not left Japan at that time."
Taking the “generation of the ice age of employment” as a clue, filmmaker Arata Mori uses psychodrama (= psychotherapy using theater) methods to transcend the boundaries between reality and unreality, self and others, theater and film, and to look at the divisions in contemporary society.