Shun Ikezoe wrote:
People can never really understand each other. Thinking back, I feel this way because of my former mother-in-law. That time, when Kansai dialect and Sichuan Chinese flew back and forth around me and I called my mother Sis, is recreated on expired 8 millimeter film. The expiration date of the film used is the same year that she walked out on us.Read More »
An imageless film, The Anticoncept was first screened on 11 February 1952 at the cinema club “Avant-Garde 52,” where it was projected upon a large white weather balloon.
It consisted of blank illumination accompanied by a staccato spoken soundtrack. The film was banned by the French censors on 2 April 1952—when the Lettrists visited the Cannes Film Festival the following month, they were forced to restrict the audience to journalists only. The text of the soundtrack was published in the sole issue of the Lettrist journal Ion (1952; reprinted Jean-Paul Rocher, 1999)Read More »
A surrealistic montage of pop culture that attacks the followers of the genre.
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Ett surrealistiskt montage som angriper popkulturen och konstvärlden av konstnären och filmaren Åke Karlung, en av den svenska experimentfilmens pionjärer.Read More »
In L’Autre Scène, the images and the sound material try to manifest the mechanism of an advertisement around the blade.Read More »
A woman’s face disappearing behind, and emerging from, a pair of hands. Flashing lights. An empty building full of dark hallways.
A film that could be a unified scheme produced by layering together a number of axes of semiotic systems. With the frame as the basic unit, the film is composed by designing an accumulation of symbols representing reactions to light.Read More »
Set of rapid telescopic images of a gym, in fast forward, traveling through itself, space and time.
700 continuous still photographs which are re-photographed frame by frame with linear, circular, and parabolic movements going up and down. This creates a crazy roller coaster out of this peaceful gymnasium shot in the dark.Read More »
Double (2001)
A film of the interactive video installation and performance art Double/Bunshin that Ito did in collaboration with Butoh dancer Setsuko Yamada in 2001.Read More »
In the Philippines of the 1950s, a young boy is growing, but not enough in his parents’ eyes: they subject him to daily stretching exercises and administer a homemade potion that they are trying to commercialise.Read More »
Takashi Ito wrote:
I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was making the film, I wanted to depict these feelings and events with tricky techniques. I used various methods to shoot photographs of a relative’s wedding, the landscape I see from window of my house, commemorative travel photographs and the like frame-by-frame.Read More »