Author Hayashi Umineko

Hayashi Umineko

Hayashi Umineko is a traveler, writer, filmmaker, pianist, independent researcher, and cinéphile. She is currently working on a writing project focusing on the concept of mediation in the writings of the Japanese philosopher and film theorist Nakai Masakazu (1900-1952).

Bresson in the Marketplace: The Invention of Robert Bresson, by Colin Burnett

Hayashi Umineko

September 2017

When François Truffaut wrote “Une crise d’ambition du cinéma francais” (1955) in his characteristically inflammatory tone, he was reacting against directors producing “canned theatre”, the...