‘The films of Stom Sogo are incantatory and self combustible. An erratic master of low tech do-it-yourself sortilege, he puts his works through seemingly perpetual remakes.’ (Mark McElhatten) ‘This is about the dreamlike images I saw while having epilepsy seizures, as they quite often happened in the past years.’ (SS)
Also in this combined programme
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And the Sun Flowers
Henry James had his motif in the carpet, Da Vinci saw faces on the wall. In this case, a strip of wallpaper contains images and… -
Glacier 60000
A photographic image of a glacier is gradually broken down – ‘melted’ – via a series of transformations, into an entirely abstract composition. -
Two Times 4’33”
Based on John Cage’s composition 4’33” (1952), the artist filmed two performances of the same piece to explore the impact on the viewer. -
Pasajeros peregrinos pilotos
Pasajeros pelegrinos pilotos shows commuters and pedestrians on their daily track. Each person has an imaginary Doppelgänger. -
Infection Transmission Event / Cloudy November
A bleak laboratory experiment in the vein of Wittgenstein’s and Burrough’s investigations into the enigma of language. -
Once
An excerpt from Rilke’s Ninth Elegy introduces this silent film which evokes the beauty and brevity of life. Images shimmer in an uncanny light. -
10,000 Copyrighted Images
This exercise in maximum velocity copyright infringement is poised between the logic of intellectual property and the limits of human perception. -
Without You
A colourful exploration of London’s industrial suburbia, focusing on an imaginary circle drawn at a 10 mile radius from Charing Cross.
Film details
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 2006
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 23'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC
