WHAT’S HAPPENING OUT THERE? – dir. Kazumi Shimizu

Original Film Title: WHAT’S HAPPENING OUT THERE?

Director’s Name: Kazumi Shimizu

Writer’s Name: Kazumi Shimizu

Producer: Michiyo Hayashi, Tetsuya Matsushima

Country of Origin: Japan

Country of Filming: Japan

Language: Japanese

Runtime: 33 minutes

Film Description:

Conversations unfold in a basement, exchanged by various people.
Their content, probing the inner recesses of the human mind, evokes nothing of what may be happening outside.

—But what is “outside”?

Is it the events occurring in the world at large, incidents close at hand, or even one’s own body—does the body itself exist outside the self?
As each viewer contemplates what “outside” means to them, the film begins to send ripples through the interior of their own mind.