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Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome

Z = |Z/Z•Z-1 mod 2|-1: Lavender Town Syndrome

Andrew Norman Wilson | USA | 2020 | 14' |

| IFFR 2020

What happens inside a Poké Ball with space and time? This is one of several questions we face in a tale told in amphetamine-fuelled voice-over. The repeated act of zooming into a multi-purpose residential skyscraper breaks open modern family domestics to reveal increasingly bizarre tableaux. A papier-mâché Pikachu stares ahead, knowing all the answers.

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