Akihiko Morishita
2021
Xérophtalmie
Akihiko Morishita
The initial concept of film as film remains unchanged, but the interest or point of attack has shifted, from the levels of mechanism and materiality of the medium, to the psychological and psychophysical level, where meaning and affection - in other words the mental processes of the image - play a major role. To this is added an approach based on a totalizing, synthetic and eclectic notion of the image and no longer according to an analytical and reductionist approach. According to this new approach, any image is made up of several elements which are heterogeneous or even contradictory.
Xérophtalmie
Xérophile
Akihiko Morishita
This film tackles criticism of our media society according to various self-referential images. To do this, all strategies are good. For example, the citation of classics, the use of traditional films or daily TV programs, the use of pseudo-narration as a pretext, as well as the inclusion of clichés and banalities ...
Xérophile
