Shabondama Elegy
A hood running from the cops and the mob shacks up with a young woman who’s been sexually abused by her father. Director Ian Kerkhof creates a scrambled and highly synthetic space in this digital video shot in Tokyo: not only is the editing disjunctive, but as the woman watches TV, images of her intermix with those on the tube, while in other scenes digital effects posterize the colors, turning supple skin into pools of solid hues. The story is so disjointed and minimal that it’s hard to care at all about the characters, but the rotating camera and other devices used during the many sex scenes intensify their eroticism and capture the couple’s uncontrolled passion. (FC)
this review originally appeared in the chicagoreader.com
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