My Movie Melodies
Waga eiga senritsu
Picture is Sound <> Sound is Picture // A weaving reed / The fence of the temple / The fraying of the wire mesh / The water hyacinth / the sand of stars / play a melody. // We hear for the first time / The sound of the image itself.
– Okuyama Jun’ichi
Also in this combined programme
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A Man Playing Movie
A brief meditation on film’s fundamental frailty as a key condition for cinema’s unique beauty.
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Film Fetish
A portrait of key Japanese avant-garde figure Okuyama Jun’ichi, obsessed by analogue film – a vanishing art.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 1980
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 7"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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