Wondering Alien Directors
No country cultivates genres like this. No country satirises them like this either. In a word: Japan.
Wondering Alien Directors
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Akiba-Field
Two women. Two swords. A man in a box. An empty street. All you need to set the scene for the apocalypse. An exercise. A joke.
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2·11
Put a group of young Japanese actors in an empty office building. Like an experiment with rats. Acting with Stockholm syndrome.
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Wandering Alien Detective Robin
Like Sting’s sad song, an Englishman in New York it doesn’t get lonelier than an alien detective in Tokyo. Nevertheless upbeat genre mishmash.
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Columbos
A real murder mystery, but without real humans. Fabulous atmosphere, lighting, choreography and dialogue-free. Just fabulous.
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Shibata and Nagao
Korean Tiger winner’s workshop project makes fun of workshops. Actors in particular are portrayed as an odd species.
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Slidelength
A carousel projects a parade of 80 images, in equal intervals of 15 seconds. Snow addresses his favourite themes such as time, memory and perception.
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What They Don’t Talk About When They Talk About Love
A wondrous film, and that is clearly what the maker wanted. She tells cheerful love stories about young blind people, played by blind actors. Apparent
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Persian Pickles
High-speed cut and paste. Paisley patterns on 16mm film create a mildly hallucinatory trip with a very 1960s feel.