OYSTER FACTORY
Kazuhiro Sôda

O.V. Japanese

Once there were twenty or more. Now, in the Japanese coastal village of Ushimado, there are only six. The gradual disappearance of small, family-run oyster factories may be a sign of the times, but it is more than a symbolic change: it also has very real consequences for fishermen, manual labourers and local residents, who are not happy to see workers being brought in from outside. Using more than ninety hours of material recorded over three weeks, New York-based filmmaker and activist writer...