Revolutionary for its ways of representing the concept of life, space, time and love most importantly, the protagonist above all. True rare love form, the one that is actually fully lived. Memories are seen as collective memories which belong to the world, not only to the individual. How many times did you come up to a house or a tree thinking «I wonder how many lives this place or living organism have seen or touched... For years? Centuries? And they've…
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House 1977
The psychedelic movie era hit the Japan too in the 70s, I'm having good dose of visions after watching this. Great fun and great manual experimentation with the aspects of the film. Reverse, fast and insistent alternate editing, lively and dizzying pan movements, motion blur for hazy and dizzy moments — and wow it wasn't easy at all to create this last effect on analog camera, I suggest to go search for it —. When things start to get more…
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Robot Carnival 1987
There was something hypnotic about 80s-90s asian animation style and form of narration. A kind of a dystopian-nostalgic sense that in this case recalls past, present and future together in a meditative — somehow ironic — state about fantasy, social contexts and personal feelings. It reminds me an aesthetic that has something to do with 1982 Blade Runner. Moreover it questions the concept of human identity showing the figure of the puppet or robot who is able to elaborate feelings.…
