Tokyo – Ebisu is an ingenious, metrical, in-camera patchwork constructed from multiple viewpoints on the platforms of Tokyo’s busiest metro line Yamanote. It uses a masking technique which exposes 1/30th of a frame 30 times in order to capture an image of spectral apparitions.
Also in this combined programme
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Rien d’extraordinaire
Intimate, poetic film diary in Rose Lowder’s signature style. She ran the film through the camera multiple times whilst recording a mountain village. -
Shrimp Boat Log
Mathematical concept by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by filmmaker Gatten into a beautiful conceptual film consisting of 300 shots, 29 frames long. -
Variationen
Super-8 blow-ups by a dedicated filmmaker who manages to capture moments that otherwise too readily escape. A catalogue of apparent insignificance. -
…These Blazeing Starrs!
Comets have augured catastrophe, upheaval and the end of days. A film about these meteoric ice-cored fireballs and their historic ties to divination. -
Shibuya – Tokyo
Double bill with Tokyo – Ebisu is an ingenious patchwork of thirty different shots showing station exits along Tokyo’s busiest metro line. -
Jardin du soleil
Poetic 16mm precision. Footage of nature and sunlight intermingled by repeatedly running the film through the camera. -
Inter View
Makino Takashi’s condensing films work like escapist drugs. Inter View is relatively minimal and marks the start of his blue period.
Film details
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
