Yet when the image succeeds, a powerful perception can be reached, allowing the viewer to better grasp the ontological relationship between the object and its creator. The image usually explains little of the source of inspiration or the artist’s intervention. A writer sitting at a desk for hours at a time, a sculptor whittling artwork from a mound of clay, an actor studying lines – unless filming an action painter like Jackson Pollock flinging oils onto a blank canvas, the creative process is generally a static and largely unvarying image of an artist’s hands responding to and executing instructions from the imaginative mind. Shot over five years, this graceful music documentary is an elegantly observed examination of the creative process, following as Sakamoto builds from nothing the album he must assume will be his swan song.Īfter the Premiere Screening: A Q&A with subject Ryuichi Sakamoto and Director Stephen Nomura Schible.The creative process is an activity that has always presented a presentational challenge to the medium of film, attempting to render that which is intangible into physical terms. With Coda, Stephen Nomura Schible crafts a portrait of the artist as an ageless man, one who can turn the worst news into the most refined and purposeful moment of productivity in an already storied career. But, never content to rest on his laurels, Sakamoto's life journey eventually led him to find musical inspiration in the unlikeliest of places: the Fukushima nuclear disaster and a personal battle with cancer, both of which gave way to a late-life shift in his artistic process.
From his start pioneering synth pop music with his band, Yellow Magic Orchestra, in the late ’ 70s to winning an Oscar for his score for The Last Emperor in 1988, Ryuichi Sakamoto quickly established himself as one of the most original and intuitive composers of his generation.
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