p 　　Murayama Kaita, a Japanese painter, novelist and poet died in 一九一九 at the age of 二二, leaving behind an impressive and time-defying body of work In his most recent film, Sato Hisayasu offers a surreal, time-crossing, meta-layered essay on the artist, his originality and his legacy br 　　Dear Kaita Ablaze brings together a young woman Azami obsessed with Murayama 三九 s painting, a young man Saku, who can hear unusual frequencies and claims to be Murayama or his spiritual imprint and a quartet of young performers with psychic abilities They bond over Murayama’s work which they recreate in performative dance while driving to a mysterious cave called Agartha br 　　Sato Hisayasu The Eye 三九 s Dream, Muscle, The Bedroom , renowned for his pinku and exploration of madness and lust, returns to IFFR Dear Kaita Ablaze is hyper-dense, obsessive and driven, effortlessly mashing surrealism with sci-fi and mysticism, layering seemingly unrelated events and encounters to bring them together in a monumental climax br 　　– kijA br br p