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The Chance Castle

The Chance Castle (2025) 39min A Film by Jerry Gordon Starring: Kayu Nakada The Chance Castle is a creative documentary/interview of musician & artist Kayu Nakada. Story: A visiting surveyor arrives in the streets of Konohana, Osaka amidst a storm of TV snow/static. The surveyor has come to chart the area's towers and gather signals that indicate systems that are not visible, obvious or clearly evident -- providing hints of potential forms of understanding. This work gives the surveyor the chance to observe dream-like secrets that perhaps inspire or confirm his actions, and enable him to find methods to access other ways to see the world that is present but not represented on the mundane surface. Approach: This film was more than two years in the making and was inspired by wanting to make a film about Kayu Nakada, and to explore/showcase his approach to making music using Bug Synth circuit boards, but also his curiosity and other creative ways of engaging existence. The structure of the film was partly guided by a Tarot reading done for me (Jerry Gordon) in February 2023 by Kayu. He regularly offered what he calls, Noise Tarot, which are tarot card readings that are done in the presence of one of his hissing/beeping/growling circuit board sculptures. The question I asked for my reading was, "How should I shoot this film?" By using his interpretation of the reading and images of the cards, I tried not just create a narrative for the film to follow. Rather, using concepts from psychogeography, I tried to dérive a film that facilitates a surreal wandering between insights and mysteries, between signals of static and clarity where the viewer can create provisional or poetic understandings. For me, Kayu's work embraces similar chance interferences of signals. The circuit boards he balances into assemblages of sound are continuously interacting and adjusting their signals, producing the roars, bleeps, whines and breathings of systems drawing on other systems, of alterations deriving from systems in flux. I tried to create the film in a way that also uses multiple signals that are revealed partly in the conflicts they cause, making the viewer aware that we are always existing amidst worlds of signals amidst worlds of signals. Often times such signals elude our awareness because of our lack of attention, because we take them for granted or tune them out as meaningless static. We regularly pass by without noticing the unique patterns and rhythms that appear all around us. They become routine and thereby ignored unless they break. In the film, you will find the "signal" of Kayu's English potentially interferes with the "signal" of his Japanese. Their meanings might seem to conflict, but another way to see this is that they create a signal that neither can reach alone. Perhaps in such chance interactions, and within the active attention/concentration/creativity of the viewer, a unique potential understanding can appear, one that is possibly fleeting and poetic. The film's structure dérived in relation to other inspirations/"thefts" as well. The ninth card in Kayu's tarot reading was of a "thief" stealing tools, and I interpreted that as meaning I should steal/dérive elements for the film from some other work of art. The King of Cups scene provides the biggest hint to what source I stole from, but I'll let you dérive from that what you can. Saying too much feels like it threatens to steal too much from your imagination. Watch it and see what you get. Cast: The Surveyor: Kayu Nakada King of Cups: Jerry Gordon Music by Kayu Nakada Dérived, Directed, Filmed, Edited and Propulated by Jerry Gordon Additional filming by Kayu Nakada Filmed in Konohana-ku, Osaka Performance at MIIT House, Konohana, Osaka Transcripts for the English and Japanese interviews can be found in the comments below.