A dark, eerie descent into culture
shock as one foreigner navigates the neon underworld of Tokyo at night.
FilmsOn.com
FilmsOn.com said “Ellen Raine Scott creates pure poetry…from Vincent Mai’s probing electronic score, to cinematographer Rachel Sanders’ bleached out excess, to Tony Nichols’ rapid pace edits cutting against the grain of Scott’s words. It’s a gripping ride…It’s also a work of art.”
The Toronto Star
“Ellen Raine Scott’s movie, a hypnotic video diary of
a season spent in Tokyo, is a piercingly observant and eloquently
articulated account of contemporary cultural displacement. Using the
urban white noise backdrop of media-saturated Tokyo as a shifting
screen for musings about gender, identity and culture. Scott has made
a first-person essay movie which favourably evokes the work of the
veteran master of the form, Chris (Sans Soleil) Marker.
-Geoff Pevere
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