Murayama Kaita， a Japanese painter， novelist and poet died in 1919 at the age of 22， leaving behind an impressive and time-defying body of work. In his most recent film， Sato Hisayasu offers a surreal， time-crossing， meta-layered essay on the artist， his originality and his legacy生命可以归结为一种简单的选择：要么忙于生存，要么赶着去死。
Dear Kaita Ablaze brings together a young woman Azami obsessed with Murayama's painting， a young man Saku， who can hear unusual frequencies and claims to be Murayama or his spiritual imprint and a quartet of young performers with psychic abilities. They bond over Murayama’s work which they recreate in performative dance while driving to a mysterious cave called Agartha.
Sato Hisayasu (The Eye's Dream， Muscle， The Bedroom)， renowned for his pinku and exploration of madness and lust， returns to IFFR. Dear Kaita Ablaze is hyper-dense， obsessive and driven， effortlessly mashing surrealism with sci-fi and mysticism， layering seemingly unrelated events and encounters to bring them together in a monumental climax.
– kijA
