“Kuro is a film about our need for narrative to make sense of our lives. We were interested in how stories become a kind of architecture of our understanding of the world, as well as protection from what we fear and do not understand. However much we protect ourselves with stories, the ways in which we construct, use and interpret them are in constant flux. Perhaps our film is also about the ways in which narrative ultimately tries to articulate the unknowable and how in spite of this, the unknowable always returns to haunt us. We wanted to make a film that plays with, and at moments unhinges the mechanisms of storytelling, in order to produce a cinematic experience that allows for space and ambiguity for the audience to explore.”

Directed by Joji Koyama, Tujiko Noriko

Cast: Tujiko Noriko, Jackie

Produced by Joji Koyama, Tujiko Noriko, Gilles Chanial

Director of photography: Joji Koyama

Music: Tujiko Noriko

Sound production: Coda to Coda

Audio supervisor: Tanya Auclair for Coda to Coda

Re-recording mixers: Will Worsley, Sam Britton, Steve Bond

Post-production: Time Based Arts

Colourist: Jack McGinity

Post-producer: Jo Chounta

Camera assistants: Elisa Franck, Antonin Le Guay

Sound recordists: Marc Thill, Stan Bertin

Graphic design and typeface: Dinamo