2020
Online project curated by Luigi Alberto Cippini and Niccolò Gravina, a series of 8 visual essays commissioned by Fondazione Prada to filmmakers, artists, intellectuals and scholars. For the project, Fujiwara created the key visual as a homage to the film La Jetée (1962) by French author Chris Marker.
Werewolves Playoffs, 2020 Satoshi Fujiwara, Alexander Kluge; Video, 4 min; A visual essay commissioned by Fondazione Prada; Editing and soundtrack: Francesco Tosini
"Satoshi Fujiwara and Alexander Kluge’s visual essay Werewolves Playoffs activates experimentation that crosses the boundaries between cinema and photography. Actions of aggression, isolation and accumulation of images create a new narrative that invests the notions of time, speed and transformation. In contrast to Chris Marker's La Jetée, where the power of memory is fixed in the frame, in Fujiwara and Kluge's video essay the images are decontextualized, deconstructed and stratified to create a dark atmosphere far from the standards of traditional cinema. Their work is the result of a long-distance collaboration that sees the Japanese photographer tries to experiment the video format for the first time, reworking original elements and films by the German director."