Naomi Kamase

[Kathrin Simmons]

I loved Naomi's Kamase's video presentation about her life and filmaking process. I was intrigued with her personality being so calm and assertive, that was supported through listening to her speaking in Japanese her native language. It sounded beautiful but monoton, which made it even more interesting. I also seemed  more wordy and then the English translation. She caught my attention right at the beginning, when she said that she wanted to catch time, that is passing all of us at the same time, on film. Making the connection to her physical and digital audience all through out the video, through adressing people straight through the camera making them think about their own life experience being able to connect to hers. She explaines how she was intrigued early on, living with her grandmother, that as a filmmaker you have a subjective and objective view at the same time. In her filmmaking Naomi Kamase intention is to  reach out to her audience and make true connections by " being able to call people all over the world by their first name". Sharing her grandmothers view of saying as she was passing: "The world is beautiful".

I have only seen trailers of some of her movies, but would like to watch her films in the future.

For sure I am sharing her attitude in reaching out to people, to my students, connecting with them, making connections to their own experiences and respecting everybody as the beautiful human beings they are.