TOKYO NOISE
Schweden 2002 – Director: Kristian Petri – Co-Director: Jan Röed, Johan Söderberg – Original language: japanisch – Subtitles: English – Length: 80 min.
Tokyo: a Mega-City of designs for the future. The boiling Japanese metropolis with its sushi, Love Hotels and Robots is heading for life in a virtual reality. Its cultural climate is made up of rushes, movement and noise, produced by millions of people and mashines.
Tokyo Noise is a film essay that combines images of city-life and city-noise with fragments of performances by Noise-artist Mayuko Hino, creating a fast audio-visual sculpture. Chaotic sound fragments become rhythmic samples that melt into post-electronic music. The noise and speed quiet down, as people from Tokyo speak about their life in the city, when the camera focuses its view on Mt. Fujiyama. This film is less about Japan's landscape than its soundscape, where urbanity and meditation interchange.
Writer: Kristian Petri, Jan Röed, Johan Söderberg. Camera: Jan Röed, Lucia Kangur-Röed, Ilppo Pohjola. Sound: Per Forsgren, Erik Pauser. Editing: Johan Söderberg. Music: Johan Söderberg, Zbigniew Karkowski. Production: Charon Film AB. Producer: Niklas Radsröm, Kerstin Allroth. International Sales: Charon Film AB
