Invisible People: an exploratory, experimental film on Butoh

Berger spent four years living in Japan, moving within
communities of dancers, filmmakers, and musicians. What began as
informal, narration-free filming — including weekly visits to
Yoshito Ohno’s studio — slowly unfolded into a long-term
cinematic attention to Butoh as it continues to exist today.
Invisible People follows dancers who hover between visibility and
invisibility, between appearing and disappearing and memory.
Rather than explaining or historicizing, the film stays close to
bodies, gestures, atmospheres — allowing presence to emerge,
waver, recede, and return. It’s also a film about fathers- her
own and the final „father figure“ Yoshito Ohno. It is attentive
to what flickers at the edge of perception. In conversation,
Achatz and Berger explore artistic collaborations, alliances,
 the contemporary Butoh dance scene in Japan and how Butoh
inhabits thresholds between life and death, presence and absence.
An episode for listeners drawn to dance, Japan, experimental
cinema.