As a collaboration involving performance artist Yuji Sone and film/video
maker Janet Merewether, this short video, based around a language lesson
structure, intends to teach the language of Japanese intimacy in five easy
steps. The subtleties of love are humorously regimented into dry language
drills.
Open the heart for a video romance, and enter a world which is out of
synch, as Japanese television and iconography are deconstructed to reveal an
erotic subtext. Suppressed thoughts and desires are liberated as geishas and
animated superheroes play out epic and banal tales of attraction. Women desire.
The unspeakable is spoken. Taboos are broken..
Janet Merewether: Video/film director, animator and film titles
designer. Committee member and curator for the Sydney Intermedia
Network.
Australia 1996
U-matic, col., 9:00
Realisation: Janet Merewether
Buch: Yuji Sone, Janet Merewether
Darsteller: Yuji Sone, Eric Dorfman, Janet Merewether u.a.
