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The story begins with a cow, happily lowing in the meadow. Moooo! And then, one fine day ... The story begins with a pig. One fine day, while the pig is happily rolling about in the mud ... Somewhere, a long way away, there lived a horse. It wasn’t a fast horse, but it was happy. One fine day ... Well! The next story begins with a dog, and then a cat and then a sheep and a chicken. Time and again, the story suddenly stalls. You expect an animal scream, the scream of death. But the story changes. People take the place of the animals. Screaming, crying, moaning and wailing. Death and sex. ‘Naku’ is a Japanese homonymic. ‘Naku’ can mean an animal noise, but ‘Naku’ can also mean weeping, crying until the tears come. Using simple ingredients - Super 8 versions of old horror films, photos and other found material - Kirk Samuelson parodies traditional story telling. At the same time ‘Naku’ also takes a playful look at the process of designating those things which set us apart.
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Erik Quint
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Text Kirk Samuelson, Joseph Shaules, Voice Joseph Shaules, Emi Yoshitome, Haruko Ishii, Kirk Samuelson
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