Overview of articles
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The Monster and the Woman
There’s a monster about. The villagers are terrified and the police seem powerless. One woman seems to know more.Published on: -
The Pioneer
In this glamorous dystopian sci-fi set in Japan in the near future, government agents distribute pills that prevent memory loss.Published on: -
Killing
The grey colour palette, razor-sharp camerawork and pulsating synthesiser soundtrack set the tone of this bloody, nihilistic samurai film.Published on: -
The Better Way Back to the Soil
A cinematographically minimalist prose poem crafted using nothing but the titles of movies that are lost. A reverie supreme.Published on: -
Asako I & II
In this gender-flipped Vertigo set in Japan, Asako’s encounter with her ex-lover’s lookalike sees her confronting the messiness of love.Published on: -
Dutchman’s Photographs
A series on the movement of walking barefoot through the ocean waves, produced using several hundred photographs.Published on: -
Domains
Drifting apart as adult women, childhood friends Aki and Nodoka’s story is told through line-readings, whose structures reveal the complications of frPublished on: -
Night Horse
A few trucks hit a road that eventually leads to a hallucinogenic crossroads and a stable with a psychedelic horse.Published on: -
Vulnerable Histories (A Road Movie)
The troubling rise of racist sentiment in Japanese society is the subject of a series of conversations between two young people.Published on: -
Memento Stella
Makino Takashi overwhelms us with his expanding universe, made up of countless images in which we can lose ourselves.Published on: