Is it possible to master the world’s easiest, most egalitarian language in 60 days, using only free learning tools?
Plena Rondo follows a Japanese performance artist, on a sixty-day experiment to master the world’s easiest and most egalitarian language, Esperanto, using only free learning tools.
Subsequently the experiment takes us on a Journey from Japan to Buenos Aires on an exploration of the political, philosophical and personal beliefs of many of the people at the heart of this social/linguistic movement. On this Journey we discover how English becomes the international language and the process of how languages die out.
The film leaves us with many questions regarding the place and power of language in a globalised yet increasingly unequal world.
anti-cool is an interdisciplinary artist from Japan working in the field of performance art, installation and now film. Direct interaction with people in different social/cultural backgrounds is one of the most important elements of the artist’s work. Her artistic mission statement is how to overcome the socially imposed boundaries or rules with which these situations and pose questions about contemporary global society.
“Plena Rondo” is anti-cool’s debut documentary film.
Written, produced and directed by anti-cool (Tomoko Freeman)
Camera: Tim Freeman, anti-cool
Additional camera: Tomoko Ikoma, Tokuko Takeshita
Editing and sound editing: anti-cool
Still photography: Tim Freeman
Translation: anti-cool
Subtitle consultants: Charles Rowe, Ikuko Kitagawa, Hisashi Kitagawa, Tim Freeman
Title design: Tim Freeman, anti-cool
Art direction: anti-cool
Copyright © 2016 anti-cool. All Rights Reserved.
Esperanto | Espéranto | Эсперанто | エスペラント
Есперанто | 世界语 | Eszperantó | אספרנטו
에스페란토 | Эсперанта | Kiesperanto | 世界語
एस्पेरांतो | Bahasa Esperanto | Quốc tế ngữ | إسبرانتو
Basa Éspéranto | اسپرانتو | ภาษาเอสเปรันโต | Εσπεράντο
ესპერანტო | עספעראנטא | ʻŌlelo Ekepelānako
