[Call for Participation] "Offline Hours" Screening Partner Recruitment

In March 2025, the art project KINO Meeting, which holds video production workshops for people with overseas roots, released the film "Offline Hours" and the making movie "Offline Hours Behind the Scene," which follows the production process.

Created through a year-long collaboration between members with different roots and primary languages, this work suggests new possibilities for communication and community.

This time, we are looking for partners to hold screenings of this film together with educational organizations and multicultural conviviality projects, in order to have many people interested in multicultural conviviality see this film, collect feedback on our efforts, and consider future developments. It can be used in a variety of ways, such as training within an organization to think about multicultural symbiosis or in classes. Please apply.

Outline of the work

"Offline Hours" (57 minutes/Japanese with English subtitles)
"Offline Hours Behind the Scene" (59 minutes/Japanese subtitles)
Production: KINO Meeting (2025)

The film "Offline Hours" is an omnibus film consisting of three episodes: Spring, Fall and Winter, produced through a year-long workshop. Each episode is set in a late-night setting in Tokyo, and the characters who have "overseas roots" unfold in a play about "decisions." In the making of the film, Offline Hours Behind the Scene, the workshop participants involved in the production of the film exchange roles each season, including director, actor, and film crew, and build organic relationships on the set without a fixed hierarchy.

【参考資料】
・レビュー：「映画づくりと新しい共同体のかたち」 執筆：三好剛平（三声舎／Asian Film Joint）
・プロダクションノート 執筆：阿部航太（KINOミーティング プロデューサー）

Application Conditions

• Applicable: Organizations involved in education, arts, and multicultural symbiosis
• Venue: Must be in and around Tokyo
• Screening dates: November 2025 to January 2026

conditions for lending works

• The rental fee for the movie is free.
  *We ask you to pay the shipping fee for returning the media for the screening.
• The condition is that the main part of "Offline Hours" and the making of "Offline Hours Behind the Scene" are shown together.
• We ask you to fill out a questionnaire to the planning organization and participants after the screening.

Image of the screening

• training sessions within the organization
• class at school
• a non-profit screening that includes public participation
• Lecture after the screening
  * The details of the method and program will be determined after consultation with the secretariat.

offering period

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 to Friday, October 31
* Depending on the number of applications, the application may end earlier than the deadline.

How to apply

Please fill out the form below to apply.
After receiving applications, we will have a meeting with the secretariat to decide whether or not to hold the event.
https://forms.gle/tReCx3zKfkyjMbgNA

About KINO Meetings

"KINO Meeting" is an art project that organizes video production workshops for people with overseas roots. Participants form groups with people from different roots, interact with them, interview them and film them, and engage with their own roots and others in a variety of ways. Then, through such collaboration, we create video works by exchanging our perspectives. The goal of the KINO meeting is to discover new forms of visual expression, new forms of communication, and new collaborative relationships (collectives) that arise in the process of video production, and to establish and disseminate these methods.

Credit

Sponsor

Tokyo Metropolitan Government, Tokyo Metropolitan History and Culture Foundation Arts Council Tokyo, Pantanal

Contact Us

KINO Meeting Secretariat
E-mail:kino.meeting.tokyo*gmail.com (replace * with @)