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Box

1982 · 8 min
5.8 / 10 · TMDB

"I stuck landscape photographs on the faces of a cube and shot them frame-by-frame. It looks like the box is forever revolving, but in truth it only revolves 90 degrees. The trick to this sensation is fundamentally the same as the one used in SPACY. I was aiming at disturbing our awareness of space in the movement from the three-dimensional to a plane and back again." Takashi Ito

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📋 Film Details

Year 1982
Country Japan
Director Takashi Ito
Runtime 8 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.8/10 (25 votes)

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🎬 MovieFinder's Take

Ito constructs the film as a pure visual postulate, relying on a basic geometric form and mechanistic editing. It explores not a narrative, but the very principle of cinematic illusion, where motion is born from stillness and three-dimensionality from a flat surface.

What lingers after viewing is a sense of perceptual vulnerability, a quiet understanding of how easily our spatial awareness can be tricked by the simplest cinematic devices. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Takashi Ito

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In total darkness, on a large screen, surrendering to its hypnotic rhythm.

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