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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • Jointed Film

    The film version of his installation Severed Film, Imai Norio’s found-footage film is a collage made from discarded 16mm film he collected from
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  • Das Gestell

    A wondrous film in which a Japanese philosopher asks a famous German colleague how the Japanese can deal with the technology integral to modern l
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  • Touch of Inga

    A negative print from the original negatives. This negative projection allows us to reconsider the various processes inherent in filmmaking. (Image Fo
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  • Extrapolate

    In this hand-drawn animation, a line is being extrapolated through a grid. After exceeding the boundaries of the grid, the process spreads to its
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  • Fake

    After years of being celebrated as Japan’s contemporary Beethoven, the life story of deaf composer Samuragochi Mamoru takes a scandalous turn wh
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  • A Bride for Rip Van Winkle

    This devastating portrait of loneliness by Iwai Shunji follows young Nanami, who recruits online strangers to act as her friends and family at her wed
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  • News

    Sardonic short by ‘Beat’ Takeshi (aka Kitano Takeshi), made for his latest TV show. Two cops in a car mull over some evidence.
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  • Happy Hour

    Four thirty-something housewives in Kobe are closely bonded by friendship and trust, until one of them breaks those ties. A patient five-hour saga of
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  • Cinéma concret

    Shadow presences gradually emerge in Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi’s abstract cinema composed of layers upon layers of natural imagery that awaken
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  • 100 Yen Love

    Take Masaharu’s Neo-Noir centres on a stupendous performance by Ando Sakura. She plays a seeming no-hoper whose doomed romance with a failed boxer lea
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