Everything Visible Is Empty

Siki soku ze ku

Japan

1975

8 Min

Color

Japanese

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There’s more to picture than meets the eye in this journey into oriental metaphysical imagery. Starting (in a very Christian manner) with the Word, the film draws an explosion of visible forms, as if a sign of the shattering of shapes in the mundane world. But time is cyclical, of course, and what was once a multitude of sensible realities must eventually return to the Word and, finally, to sheer Color. —thesoundofeye.blogspot.com

Director

Toshio Matsumoto

Toshio Matsumoto (born March 25, 1932) is a Japanese film director and video artist. He was born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan and graduated from Tokyo University in 1955.

His first short was Ginrin, which he made in 1955, however his most famous film is Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no soretsu). Funeral Parade of Roses influenced Stanley Kubrick’s film A Clockwork Orange heavily. The film was a retelling of Oedipus Rex, featuring a transsexual (portrayed by Peter) trying to move up in the world of the Japanese gay bars.

Matsumoto has published many books of photography and is currently a professor and Dean of Arts at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. He was also the President of the Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences. —Wikipedia

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febyac

13Jan13

colorful, repetitive and blinking

Judicial Joe

9Nov12

Hypnotic. Terrifying. Trancelike.

Mugino

28Dec10

This is a brilliant, visual interpretation of Buddhist mantras, although sadly I think much of its meaning is probably lost to those who can't read the characters or recognize the mantras themselves. There's no easy way to translate the flashes of these logographic characters!