Young Pines grew out of three trips to Japan between May 2009 and November 2010. Invited to Japan for a series of film screenings, I began filming in Yokohama, Tokyo, and Kanazawa. Even in the big cities, I experienced how strongly the Japanese feel connected to nature and how they tend to see no contradiction between culture and nature. I found this stimulating and in harmony with some of my own impulses. I wanted to return and film more in other seasons. In Spring 2010 I visited Kamakura, Kyoto, and Nara, in November I went Northeast and filmed in Matsushima, Tono, Miyako in Atsumi, Yamadera, and Nikko. All of my film images have been filmed before the disaster of the Tsunami and Fukushima, but the final editing was done in the following months.
Ute Aurand
Director
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return67%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Love, Marilyn66%
The Class of ‘9271%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Cameraperson67%
Making 'The Shining'71%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
To Be Takei71%
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds75%
Maternal Instinct72%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Girl Model65%
Maidentrip70%
Heart of a Dog65%
Directed by John Ford70%
The Walking Dead: The Return73%
