A short film produced by Dutch Uncle for Alexander App featuring a special collaboration with Japanese artist Kensuke Koike.

​~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Story

A seminal work of Japanese literature, written by master poet and former samurai Matsuo Bashō in 1689 – and now newly translated into English.

In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he was an ardent student of Zen Buddhism, setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world and bring spiritual enlightment  

He wrote of the seasons changin, of the smells of the rain, the brightness of the moon, and beauty of the waterfall, through which he sense mysteries of the universe. There’s seventeenth-century travel writing not only chronicle Basho’s perilous journeys through Japan, but they also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him.

ALEXANDER APP 

@alxrfeatures

Alexander is in-depth storytelling three ways: a written story, an audio performance, and a super-short film by an acclaimed director to set the mood, tease the deeper story, and visually capture faraway and unfamiliar people and places.