the varied movements of love, and always precarious.
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Tokyo-Ga 1985
the search for the images from Ozu's films in contemporary Tokyo (in 1983) turns into a gentle meditation upon the very nature of images and what that does to memory, to remembering, how we see the city in the thrall of machines that reproduce and multiply images; yet how the outside gradually and with tenderness turns inwards in the interviews with Ozu's assistant and cameraman as well as with one of his actors, how the transitoriness of images opens up…
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The Wild Robot 2024
Damn. The best part of the film is the marginalization , if not the total absence, of the human species from the frame of sentience- it is no longer an exclusively human prerogative, not so in today's world that kills children, a world that uses naked power and genocide in the name of self-defence.
Roz, the shipwrecked robot, learns to hold and express feelings while parenting a goose. And it is this- a machine overriding it's script, it's programming by…
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The One I Love 2014
imagine meeting your own self as a separate being, imagine that mirror self knows all of your vulnerabilities and lies, imagine your lover falling out of love only to fall in love with your mirror self, imagine the horror-kink of living life with a stranger who exactly looks like your wife and who knows all her secrets, imagine making love with your lover who is also someone else, imagine all the versions of ourselves we constantly keep in circulation, in…
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