PUBLIC MARKS with tags location:japan & film

Midnight Eye is an entirely non-commercial, non-profit initiative created and maintained by: Tom Mes - editor Jasper Sharp - editor Martin Mes - design and programming Nicholas Rucka - U.S. correspondent

one take impromptu film made in Tokyo by Dennis Wheatley and Stefan McClean. We were sitting in this sushi bar pondering how best to set up a camera to film things all by itself whilst we were in Tokyo. Take our hands out of the equation... let the camera have its own journey. I'd taken a cannibalised record turntable with me from the UK with the idea of filming slow panoramas but it was painfully bumpy and stopped every minute. Then we had our eureka moment and filmed this. A few years later I was working on a piece of music and married the two together. The music is all about that feeling when you're half asleep in the sun.. the ambiance of foreign voices becomes a lullaby to dream away.

Guidé par des cinéastes, des acteurs, des producteurs mais aussi des écrivains, des critiques et un yakuza tapis dans l’ombre, le film retrace l’histoire du (...)