DIRECTOR & CREATIVE DIRECTOR
BRIEF/APPROACH
The Zeiss Supreme Prime 15mm has many unique characteristics. It’s a wide lens built for fullframe sensors with imagery that feels larger than life. An extremely wide lens has uncommon features against other wide lenses in it’s category. The Zeiss Supreme Prime 15mm has little to no distortion and retains a richness of colour and sharpness throughout the edges of the lens.
Our task was to showcase Zeiss’s new lens the Supreme Prime 15mm to filmmakers across the world. We only had 6 days to tell a story using one lens. To create something that would resonate with artists no matter your background or language.
https://lenspire.zeiss.com/cine/en/article/the-circle
01/25/2023
For a while my creativity felt stale and it didn’t incite the excitement it used too. There was something missing with what I was doing and I couldn’t understand what it was. I felt I was living life in a circular motion. Doing the same things and experiencing the same things. I needed a change. When I wrote this film these were the thoughts that were actively on my consciousness. A lot of things when I’m creating films or art I just have a feeling.
And often times I for that moment lack the vocabulary to explain what it is I’m feeling. I use film a form of visual poetry. It’s a vessel that helps me make sense of what it is that I’m experiencing. I hope when you watch this you felt something. And it helped you make sense of something you may not have had words for. Or at the least it made you feel something other than the circular emotions you’ve been experiencing. “The Circle” is just a line but something profound happens when that line bends and takes on new forms.
Director: Jimmy Vi
Cinematographer: Toshihiko Kizu
Salary Man: Akiyoshi Tsujimoto
Aquarium Shop Dancer: Rin Kuwana
Construction Worker: Santa Terakado
Girlfriend: Chinami
Mother: Megumi Matsushita
Daughter: Chika Matsushita
Grandma’s Voice: Momoko Noji
Producer/1st AD: Kishin Oyama
Production Manager: So Matsufuji
Production Assistant: Akane Suzuki
Production Assistant: Yuta Rikiyama
1st AC: Masanori Yokota
2nd AC: Shunta Ishizuka
3rd AC: Ryo Araki
DIT: Sou Naoi
Gaffer: Satoshi Tani
Lighting Chief: Takuya Kakizaki
Grip: Takuya Watanabe
Best Boy: Kengo Futamura
Sound: Masato Takeda
Sound Assist: Atsushi Yoshida
Producer: Joe Frustaglio
Boombox Sound EP: Umber Hamid
Hair and Make-Up: Janeth Leyva Aragon
Stylist: Hideyuki Sanbongi
Driver: Yasutoshi Shima
Driver: Ryosuke Yanai
Offline Editor: Rina Takeuchi
Colour by Artjail
Colourist: Clinton Homuth
Colour Assistant: Austin Tang
Online Editor: Jimmy Vi
Mixer: Takaomi Tomura
Casting: Masao Takami
Special Thanks
NAC Rental, Muse Crea, BOND S, Nabeya, Nomad Tokyo, Film.M.I.S.S.I.O.N, Needles, Hikaru aquarium, Yoshimi Joya, Hana, Snack Private, Ben Robinson