Haze (2005 film)
- Man: Shin'ya Tsukamoto
- Woman: Kaori Fujii
- Sufferer: Takahiro kandaka, Takahiro Murase, Mao Saito, Masato Tsujioka
Haze is one of Shin'ya Tsukamoto produced, authored, rotated, played and recorded with DV short film of 2005.
Content
A man finds himself alone, without memory and knowledge about his situation in a narrow body, elongated, dark concrete room again and is injured by a mysterious, undefined violence on the belly. Again and again he breaks out because of its location in panic and despair. He pushes his way through ever more, oppressive metal - concrete rooms where partially happens to him through the rooms of violence. Such a space is so tight that he has to grind his teeth to a metal pipe along, to get around sideways. On the ground there are sharp, nail-like devices and the projection to which it clings with your hands in order to reduce the pressure on his feet, is peppered with sharp objects. He later observed through a hole strangely behaving men who are short then torn apart by an unknown force. Again and again he hallucinates, including a firework display, or listening to a female voice. He later meets in a room with countless body parts a living, also injured his belly woman as he has no memory and idea what is going in this concrete maze in front of him. They discuss their situation. The woman is planning a channel to go further, which is filled with blood-red water in which there are body parts. Only reluctantly accompanied the man's wife. The channel is below completely under water. The woman decides to continue diving, the man follows. He appears alone and climbs up a shaft, which is locked up. He pushes him on the head and sees for the first time warm light and the room of an apartment. He sees a bloody hand behind a piece of furniture out look, which as it turns out the woman's place is also living, which he now recognizes as his wife. He calls the emergency call. There follows a scene in which the man clearly aged on a roof between white sheets that were hung up to dry, and travels around the blue sky. This is followed by a scene where man and woman - again so far this year - laughing sit together and listen to a fireworks display and can be seen in the changing light of their faces.
Criticism
"Shot with a DV camera and released theatrically in a 49 - minute version, " Haze " ... Resembles Tsukamoto 's previous investigations into extreme of pain, rage and general madness, but it is therefore an experiment in minimalist technique and narrative. It's one tiny camera filming one desperate man with only one objective: escape. In ... filming his trapped hero up close Tsukamoto had to use outside light and open one side of his concrete hell hole, giving him - and us - metaphorical breathing space ".
"The 49 - minute horror movie Haze is not for the claustrophobic. ... The first half of the movie is scarier than the second. Once ... the man finds companionship, haze -free its terrifying grip, and the scenario Suggests a Japanese horror adaptation of Samuel Beckett 's Happy Days. But When the couple discover a possible exit, the filmless its metaphysical dimension and turns into a banal escape drama. "
Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers 2005
On the Jeonju International Film Festival ( South Korea) was shown a 24 -minute version of the film on April 28, 2005. The festival invites every year since 2000, three directors a to rotate (Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers ) on a given topic in digital format as part of a project and provides for each director $ 50,000 available. Besides Tsukamoto South Korean Song Il- gon and the Thai Apichatpong Weerasethakul made contributions.
In later performances and publications of the film has a running time of 49 minutes.
Film Festival
- Jeonju International Film Festival (April 28, 2005)
- New York Film Festival (October 1, 2005)
- Viennale 2005 ( in the form of Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers 2005)
- Lyon Asiexpo Film Festival (12 November 2005)
- FilmAsia Festival (3 December 2005)
- Cologne Cineasia Film Festival (10 December 2005)
- Mar del Plata Film Festival (March 11, 2006)
- Dead by Dawn Horror Film Festival (April 21, 2006)