Shingo Ōta
Born in Japan in 1985, Shingo Ōta graduated from Waseda University with a degree in humanities and social sciences. His first feature-length documentary The End of the Special Time We Were Allowed (2013) screened at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival and was broadcast in 12 countries. He subsequently directed his first feature film, Fragile (2014), in which he plays the lead role and shines a light on one of Japan's poorest neighbourhoods. The film screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival and subsequently had a national release in Japan in 2019. Since his first stage appearance in Five Days in March presented in Hong Kong in 2010, Shingo Ōta has continued his acting career, often appearing in Toshiki Okada's creations such as Super Premium Soft Double Vanilla Rich presented in Paris as part of the Festival d'Automne in 2015. Since his first theatre production, Ghost Takes a Taxi (2019), Shingo Ōta has cultivated a field that lies between documentary and performance and, through his staging, seeks a way to blur the audience's sensations of expectation.
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Shingo Ōta, Kyoko Takenaka Les dernières geishas
The profession of the geisha, an emblematic figure of a fantasized vision of Japan, is often a little-known one, and which is also in the process of disappearing. Going beyond the stereotypical vision we have of them, what is the reality of their practice? In this documentary performance, Shingo Ōta and Kyoko Takenaka set out in search of the last geishas of the Japanese archipelago.