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Sakura
Sakura focuses on Hanami in Tokyo, revealing people’s individual responses to the cherry blossoms.Published on: -
Sync Up Element
An incantatory and self-combustible mix of images, as seen while having epileptic seizures. By an erratic master of low tech DIY video.Published on: -
Gushing Prayer
Several secondary school pupils start experimenting with group sex as a protest against the corrupt world of adults. 15-year-old Yasuko is by her teacPublished on: -
A Tender Place
Stunning drama with elegant, labyrinthine plot about the disappearance of a girl aged five. The mother continues to fantasise about her return, whilePublished on: -
Paris, Texas, Moriguchi: Looking for Yocchan
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Unconscious
Abstract meditation with fabulous structures of water and air caught in bubbles.Published on: -
Aanaatt
An animated, analogue picture of the future, involving seriously figurative mysteries and everyday playful abstractions.Published on: -
German + Rain
Nice film. Pretty weird film too, but with an abundance of quick-witted and occasionally bizarre ideas. A 16-year-old school leaver is known as GorillPublished on: -
Episode 2 The Replicated Ruin
Second part of a trilogy: an anti-capitalist parable. A major forgery case brings the Japanese economy to the brink. Two policemen hunt for Mayumi: thPublished on: -
However…
Kore-Eda (Nobody Knows, Still Walking) started as a documentary maker with this beautiful portrait about the life and work of the head of Japanese socPublished on: