Daïchi Saïto


Japan-born, Montréal-based artist Saïto work seems to aspire toward a singular plane of expression wherein the unstable material reality of the celluloid image meets intricate conceptual designs, which often advance along musical-mathematical coordinates. He is a co-founder of the Double Negative Collective.

“I like to think that the black spaces between images are analogous to the blank white spaces between the words and lines of a poem, and that the light beam of the projector that penetrates film frames is analogous to the breath that gives life to written words.” – Daïchi Saïto

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Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis – Canada 2009
10 min – 35mm – no dialogue
M: Malcolm Goldstein – V: Light Cone

The film explores familiar landscape imagery of the neighbourhood at the foot of Mount-Royal Park in Montréal. Entirely hand-processed , the film is a poem of vision and sounding that seeks certain perceptual insight and revelation through a syntactical structure based on patterns, variations and repetition.