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Spacy (Takashi Ito, 1981)

    Spacy

    Takashi Ito, Japan, 1981, 10’

    Spacy elaborates the concept of ‘infinite regress’ through a zoom-in to a grandstand on which animated photos show a zoom of the same stand, ad infinitum, with reverses and variations. The film’s subject is ultimately the location (a gymnasium), the illusion (the representation of the gymnasium), and time (the ten minutes the film runs). All components are strictly combined in an endless cycle, like a Möbius strip or an Escher film, in a Japanese tempo, from slow to fast.

    Bio Takashi Ito

    Japanese experimental filmmaker Takashi Ito is known for his avant-garde short films, such as Spacy (1981), Thunder (1982), and Ghost (1984). His films are characterised by specific photographic techniques, such as long exposure, time-lapse, and stop-motion. Ito’s filmmaking style was influenced by his mentor Toshio Matsumoto. Ito’s debut feature-length film, Toward Zero, premiered at the 2021 Image Forum Festival, Japan’s largest art film festival.
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    • This film was #37 in the “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025
      voted by Blake Williams, Michael Sicinski, Koyo Yamashita, Gerald Weber, Ryan Swen, Laia Nadal, Koen de Rooij
    experimental avant-garde structuralism

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    Old Child

    Elettra Bisogno, Hazem Alqaddi, Belgium, Palestine, 2019, 16’

    Old Child depicts the fragmented story of Hazem, who had to flee Gaza. Throughout this stream-of-consciousness montage of dreams and reminiscences, he searches for order but also for the beauty he left behind.

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    Swollen Stigma

    Sarah Pucill, United Kingdom, 1998, 21’

    Swollen Stigma is a visual, surrealistic narrative about a woman travelling both literally and psychically through several rooms. Memories, or fantasies, of another woman, fill her imagination. The film proposes lesbian imagery, and its shifting points of view jump between the protagonist, fantasy spaces, and her lover, making an internal world leak into what is external.

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    Downside Up

    Tony Hill, United Kingdom, 1984, 18’

    With a single camera movement, this film explores humankind’s relationship to the ground. The viewpoint continuously changes. Places, objects, people, and events come in and out of focus. These observations gradually speed up and reveal a double-sided ground, flipping like a tossed coin, which then slows again to oscillate around the Earth’s edge.

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    Yarokamena

    Andrés Jurado, Colombia, Portugal, 2022, 21’

    In 20th-century Colombia, resistance fighter Yarokamena, a member of the indigenous Uitoto tribe, called for rebellion against violent exploitation of the rubber mining industry in the Amazone and invoked the spiritual powers of war.

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