Dir: Takashi Ito
Total running time: 75 mins approx.
"My major intention is to change ordinary everyday life scenes and draw the audience (myself) into a vortex of supernatural illusion by exercising the magic of films."
This is a rare chance to see a selection of work by experimental filmmaker Takashi Ito, whose 1981 graduation film Spacy used 700 still images and and an electronic score by regular collaborator Takashi Inagaki to create a rollercoaster ride around an empty gymnasium. Since then Ito has continued to slice up space and time with dazzling and disconcerting results. The programme will also include his 1995 piece Zone, winner of the Main Prize at Oberhausen Short Film Festival.
This screening has been made possible by the support of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.
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