An early precursor to her feminist video works on domestic spaces, artist Idemitsu Mako mocks the objectification of women with a hilarious reversal from conventions of psychedelic art: a kimono-dressed woman performs a traditional dance with a naked dancing man superimposed over her to reveal her playful inner psyche.
Also in this combined programme
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For the Damaged Right Eye
Considered a milestone in Japanese expanded cinema, the film captures the vivacity of 1960s Tokyo with its overlapping triple-projection and chaoti
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4 Eyes
Projecting two 16mm prints of the same film with a time delay, artist Tanaami Keiichi’s psychedelic trip expresses the mind slipping out of conscio
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At Any Place 2
Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s soup is swapped with cup noodle by artist Idemitsu Mako in a mockery of the reverence of everyday objects in pop art
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Great Society
With six simultaneous 16mm projections, Oe Masanori and Marvin Fishman mix newsreel footage into a collage that captures 1960s United States at a f
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Illusion City
Japanese animator Shimamura Tatsuo captures the energy of city life and its continuous transformation in this lively 1960s animation with a range o
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Why
The experimental animation by artist Tanaami Keiichi captures the intensity of a boxing fight by freezing and stretching the moment between a punch
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1972
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 4"
- Medium/Format
- File
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