Japan Tapes is a collection of brief videotaped encounters recorded during Asher’s travels to Japan. More poetic than ethnographic, the works playfully read the surfaces of Japanese modern life as it reacts to its American visitor.
Also in this combined programme
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Après le feu
A train is heading to the vanishing skyline; in perpetual colour metamorphosis, the landscape never ceases to stay still. -
München-Berlin Wanderung
Fischinger’s three-and-a-half-week long trip on foot from Munich to Berlin captured on a 35mm camera in 1927. -
The Boat
A metaphorical journey through the streets of Amsterdam in search of a lost paradise and the hope for freedom. -
The Cave
Canadian First Nations tale that combines authentic traditions of oral storytelling but takes on fictional dimensions. -
Film ist mehr als Film
A short meditation on film, and what cinema stands for. Uses a series of two second clips, comprising quotes and terms derived from movie soundtracks. -
Sa, 29. Juni/Arctic Circle
Two couples travel from Vienna to the North Cape and back. On 29th June, passing the polar circle, they stop in front of a sign… -
Three Poems By Spoon Jackson #1
An emotional journey through the traumatic past of Spoon Jackson, an actor, poet and writer, sometime philosopher, imprisoned since 1977. -
Los orígenes del marketing
Self-reflective road movie diary, blending social commentary and pop music. Intersects cinema, travelling, politics and ‘the origins of marketing’. -
Route 666
Surreal and satirical yet poetic, Route 666 is part of George Kuchar’s series Weather Diary. -
Horizontal Intimacy
Probing and expanding the field of vision, a busy airport terminal reveals its exponential experimental potential. -
Travelogue
Visually deconstructing the idea of a travelogue, this film is an ode to the city, as derived from a wide range of travel writings about… -
La voûte
Under the bridge: an endless play of light, pulsating, reversing and returning. A video like a palindrome. -
O quam tristis
A mother and daughter wrestle on a beach – an analogy for their real life conflicts and a manifestation of a perpetual generational gap.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Japan, USA
- Year
- 1997
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 3'
- Medium/Format
- DV cam NTSC