Level five / Argos Films ; avec la participation de Canal+, Coficiné et du Centre national de la cinématographie ; avec le soutien de la Procirep et en coproduction avec La Sept Cinéma ; Les Films de l'Astrophore et Argos-Films présentent ; un film de Chris Marker.
Publisher:
Icarus Films Home Video,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide.
Catherine Belkhodja, Nagisa Oshima, Kenji Tokitsu, Ju'nichi Ushiyama, Shigeaki Kinjo. DVD release of the 1996 motion picture. Guide includes essay by Christophe Chazalon.
Summary:
"...a hallucinatory visual essay, half documentary, half fiction, on memory, tragedy, and early digital culture. A woman (Catherine Belkodja), haunted by the loss of her lover, works on programming a video game about World War II's Battle of Okinawa. Melding retro-futuristic sci-fi imagery and reflections on traumas in Japanese history into a provocative visual and philosophical puzzle, Level Five 'belongs equally to the past, the present and the future...'"--Container
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