"A Page of Madness"
Teinosuke Kinugasa (Japan 1926, 70 min)
Otomo Yoshihide & Chris Pitsiokos
Otomo Yoshihide (g, turntables, elec) & Chris Pitsiokos (as)
http://otomoyoshihide.com/
http://chrispitsiokos.com/
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A Crazy Page
With haunting visual intensity and in regular bursts of free associative montage, the film presents scenes from the fantastic lives of the inmates of an insane asylum. Starting with a dancing madwoman, the film disorients us with double, triple and quadruple exposures, drawing us into a rapid disorienting maelstrom of hallucinations and ghosts of the past, leaving us with a vivid sense of ghostly madness. Without the aid of intertitles, but using only the purely cinematic means of framing, montage and rhythm, this most fascinating and terrifying of all asylum films makes all other attempts to visualise the subjective experience of mental and emotional confusion look downright childish by comparison.
This masterpiece of the Japanese avant-garde is set to music by one of the most important musicians of the Japanese underground, the guitarist, turntable virtuoso and electronic musician Otomo Yoshihide, together with his regular collaborator, the New York-based alto saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos. Yoshihide's unparalleled skills as a turntablist and
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"A Page of Madness"
Teinosuke Kinugasa (Japan 1926, 70 min)
Otomo Yoshihide & Chris Pitsiokos
Otomo Yoshihide (g, turntables, elec) & Chris Pitsiokos (as)
http://otomoyoshihide.com/
http://chrispitsiokos.com/
***
A Crazy Page
With haunting visual intensity and in regular bursts of free associative montage, the film presents scenes from the fantastic lives of the inmates of an insane asylum. Starting with a dancing madwoman, the film disorients us with double, triple and quadruple exposures, drawing us into a rapid disorienting maelstrom of hallucinations and ghosts of the past, leaving us with a vivid sense of ghostly madness. Without the aid of intertitles, but using only the purely cinematic means of framing, montage and rhythm, this most fascinating and terrifying of all asylum films makes all other attempts to visualise the subjective experience of mental and emotional confusion look downright childish by comparison.
This masterpiece of the Japanese avant-garde is set to music by one of the most important musicians of the Japanese underground, the guitarist, turntable virtuoso and electronic musician Otomo Yoshihide, together with his regular collaborator, the New York-based alto saxophonist Chris Pitsiokos. Yoshihide's unparalleled skills as a turntablist and Pitsiokos' excitingly fluid and genre-bending approach to the saxophone combine in this duo that is by turns bubbling and seething, shrill and generous. The perfect mix, then, to match the visual orgy sonically as well.
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Videoex - International Experimental Film & Video Festival
25th Edition
25 May – 4 June 2023
Videoex, the largest Experimental Film & Video Festival in Switzerland, is celebrating its 25th edition this year. Over 11 days, Videoex will present more than 150 works on the threshold between visual art and film.
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8004 Zürich
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