Describing videotape as a “tape measure of time”, Imai Norio wraps open-reel videotape around a television monitor in this performative intervention. Visually silencing the broadcast of animated cartoons, the performance is a playful deconstruction of the video apparatus.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
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En (Circle)
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Jointed Film
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Pizza Time
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Time in Square
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Film details
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 1980
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 16'
- Medium/Format
- DVD
