Buy a ticket and take this ride because you need to see this film and you need to see it big and in a darkened room/theater.
Ana Vaz uses Yoko Hasuke’s essay “Journal of a Radioactive Brain” as the narrative thread to link up ten years of images and thoughts looking at the state of the world and particularly Japan in the wake of the Fukishima disaster. It is film that ponders life facing an invisible danger.
Moving light years forward from her first film IT'S NIGHT IN AMERICA Vaz as made a meditative film that you get lost in. One part essay, one part diary, one part experiment, one part travelogue the film's weaving of sound and image takes us not only into Japan but also into Vaz's head space. This is very much how one person sees the world.
Days after first sitting down to watch the film I find I am haunted by it. I am haunted not so much by what I saw or heard but what I felt. Watching the film in a darkened room I left my body and went somewhere. I felt things that I hadn't before. I was forced to consider life in a new way.
This is cinematic magic.
It is also a film more about emotion than words so this piece is going to be much briefer than I would like simple because what I want to share with you are the sensations of watching the film, but they exist in a place without words so I can't share them
I will say that the images on a big screen are trippy. We get a fantastic sense of place. If you want to get lost and travel without leaving your seat see this film. Please see it as big as possible with as few distractions as possible,
I am not going to lie, this film isn't for everyone. Its not a big action film. There is a long beautiful sun set that is allowed to just happen which may not work for some people despite being beautiful. You have to work with it and go with it. If you can't do that, stay away.
If you want to take a cinematic trip, buy a ticket and go for a ride.
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