Ryôya Kobayashi

  • Alain Escalle – Le Conte Du Monde Flottant AKA The Tale of the Floating World (2001)

    2001-2010Alain EscalleAnimationFranceShort Film


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    IMDB user Review:

    Artifacts Don’t Move

    The idea of this, and the ideas of how we might watch it, are more engaging than the thing itself.

    Japan is a collection of notions about what it was, perhaps more-so than any other culture with visibility. Both Japanese and the west look on that collection of cultural relics, sometimes to mine for expressive power.

    (Arabia and Persia have a similar dynamic which differs in being based on knowledge rather than refinements in society. It also differs in that it destroyed what they had themselves — and deliberately, so only the anger at loss remains and none of the reference to introspection.)Read More »

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