Movie
Hitokara ヒトカラ
2018 · 87 min
A slow, meditative drift through loneliness and healing, more like a poem or a ritual than a story, asking you to sit quietly with ghosts.
- Directed by
- Kyle Faulkner
- Tagline
- "Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone." - Paul Tillich
- Overview
- A poem about grief and the artificial, a copy of a copy of a copy, a therapeutic slow cinema meditation on solitude and the psychoanalytic and healing aspects of karaoke and all it implies, its emotional mechanics, modern art as endless duplication, the Real within the “false”. A love letter to Japan, channelling Marker and Benning into a spiritual reimagining of a Totoro hunt, a Shinto funeral rite for ghosts caught between worlds, and ideally, an antidote to Matsumoto's Atman. Featuring the Steamroom compositions of Jim O’Rourke.
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- Directed by
- Kyle Faulkner
