The Vipers

Tajiri Shinkichi | Netherlands | 1955 | 9' |

| IFFR 2004

In Paris in 1955, Shinkichi Tajiri sketches in a hallucinogenic way the emergence of the counter culture.

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From The Exterior
Cinema Regained
Fragmentary pictures of reality in nocturnal living rooms filmed surreptitiously.
Alicia in Wonderland
Cinema Regained
Furniture flies through the back wall of an artificial world.
Pos.Neg.Light Vibrations
Cinema Regained
Investigation printed on an optical printer of inside and outside a film window.
Zoenende Duitsers
Cinema Regained
Found ‘home movie’ of an innocent looking party of unpleasant people.
Roodkapje verteld door honderdzestig Nederlanders
Cinema Regained
Inhabitants of the same street in Haarlem together tell the fairy tale from the title, each in 15 words..
How to make a New York cake
Cinema Regained
It’s always party time with the De Nooijer family at home. Innocent pleasure or a political film?
Door II
Cinema Regained
The essence of the object becomes visible in the only possible movement.
Ricercar
Cinema Regained
The supple camera feels its way along the walls of corridors and rooms, with the complicating double image accentuating the camera movement.
Door I
Cinema Regained
The essence of the object becomes visible in the only possible movement.
Living
Cinema Regained
Man, woman and camera live in mutual tension with each other and the empty space. Zwartjes’ masterpiece.tekst IFFR 1992:Living is a demonstration of the virtuoso…