Ito Takashi

Ito Takashi at IFFR

• Zone

  Surreal interior study with a man without a face.

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  The Moon

  Film-maker looks around the house by the light of the moon. The moon makes everything strange. The film-maker makes the strange even stranger.

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  Box

  Clever technical abstraction that makes fun of the third dimension.

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  Spacy

  Picture in a picture in a gymnasium; training for the eyes.

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• Thunder

  Filming film as a game about play or about the girl and the thunder, or both.

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• Monochrome Head

  Man with the camera sees his daughter with a baseball bat or is it a legendary monster? As more often with Ito: it’s both. See also A Silent Day.

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• Ghost

  Filmic play with floating images of a sleepless film-maker. See also Grim.

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• Devil’s Circuit

  A skyscraper races around at breakneck speed.

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  A Silent Day

  Portrait of a young woman on the brink of suicide.

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• December Hide-and-Seek

  Home video of the film-maker’s five-year-old son. But father is a film-maker, so it’s not really a home video.

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