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"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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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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