Samurai Blood

This interactive installation, especially made for the festival, uses the visual language and the conventions of the Japanese Samurai film, including the endless sword fights and lots of fake-blood. Life and death are pointless values, dying is above all a visual effect. That also applies to many other Japanese genres such as soap, Manga and animation and also in many video games you often get an opportunity to have a second go at life. Samurai Blood wants to focus on this trend of stripping death of its dramatic significance and presenting it as a form of entertainment. With a real katana (Japanese sword) the player has to defeat the shadow of a Samurai on the screen. Ten seconds after the shadow has died, he jumps up again and calls: 'I am not finished!' The result of the fight is an abstract painting of blood.