News from Japan 1

In this combined programme

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  A Silent Day

  Portrait of a young woman on the brink of suicide.

  • main programme short
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  Childhood

  Refined optical illusion of a girl who uncurls paper.

  • main programme short

• Scrap Diary

  About a hundred short scenes unfold at dizzying speed in black & white.

  • main programme short
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  A Little Planet

  Taking a stroll with a gleaming, floating ball.

  • main programme short
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  Dizziness

  About the broken psyche of a young Japanese woman.

  • main programme short
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  Mt. Head

  A traditional Japanese story about a man with a cherry tree growing out of his head.

  • main programme short
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  Hanashi Guy

  Japanese animated men in humorous Super-8 film made with alcohol and sweat.

  • main programme short

• Goldfish Fetish

  A fetish collection of goldfish, drawn over a period of twenty years.

  • main programme short

• A Gaze in Summer – 1942

  • main programme short