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Iconoclasm No. 1

Iconoclasm No. 1

Kurokawa Hoshu | Japan | 1999 | 12' |

| IFFR 2000

Experimental processing of existing images. The film-maker admires the historic religious iconoclasts who wreaked havoc in Japan in the eighth century and tries to destroy modern urban images and symbols just as fanatically. The destruction is thorough; the film achieves almost pure abstraction.

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