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Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature French Documentary Screening on U.K. TV on Sunday
posted on by Andrew Osmond
The Sky Arts channel will screen the French documentary feature film, Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature, on Sunday February 9 at 1.45 p.m. The Sky Arts Channel is available on Freeview as Channel 36.
The trailer for the film is below:
Running 82 minutes, the 2024 documentary film is directed by Leo Favier. The film includes comments from Toshio Suzuki, Goro Miyazaki, Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Susan Napier. Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature is described on the Venice Film Festival website:
"For over 50 years, Hayao Miyazaki has been enchanting the world with his films... They form a luminous body of work and characters that have become cult classics. Miyazaki's films, often autobiographical, also reflect the state of the world and the turmoil of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, made of wars and ecological disasters...
"Thanks to exceptional access granted by Studio Ghibli to numerous film excerpts and rare Japanese television archives, we discover the life of Miyazaki as well as a profoundly ecological body of work that questions our relationship with the natural world and living beings. Thinkers like anthropologist Philippe Descola or philosopher Timothy Morton, as well as close associates, his son and film director Gorō Miyazaki, and Toshio Suzuki, his longtime producer and friend, bring us closer to this tireless, obsessive, and mysterious artist."
