The Summer I was Four
Synopsis
A cinematic rendition of Shuji Terayama’s poem, The Summer I Turned Four. Coastal images, thresholds, waves, expanses, are folded in to those of a statue of a young boy, who looks impassively onto the wide vista, frozen in time.
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