tempo

A quiet atmospheric portrait of an elderly store owner in the small town of Yagi Kyoto Prefecture Yu Arakis camera carefully observes the curiously named Mr Yagis daily routine and interactions with local customers during the last autumn season for his shop which is no longer in business Documenting the passage of time in parallel with processes of depopulation the title Tempo conjures a double meaning playing on the Japanese word tenpo 店舗 which means store