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Japan Japan
2007. Israel. Lior Shamriz. 65 min.
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Camels Drink Water
2007. Sweden. Nathalie Djurberg. 4 min.
Friday, March 28, 2008, 8:45 p.m.
Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1
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Japan Japan
2007. Israel. Directed by Lior Shamriz. A young man adrift and in search of stimulation leaves his small-town home and moves to the fertile sexual terrain of the big city. Director Lior Shamriz takes this age-old scenario and updates it for an era when the unimagined limits of adventurousness arrive and dissolve at light speed online. His hero, Imri, unable to concentrate on the frivolity of a pointless job, cruises cinemas for boys, chills with aspiring artists and surfs the Web for fantasies in foreign lands. Set in the ultimate twenty-first-century cutting-edge city, Tel Aviv, Shamriz's film creates a post-exotic cinema where a war zone borders a metropolis, precision redirects to chaos, and subtle grace links to graphic pornography. Japan Japan is the fabricated land that, unlike a metaphor, delivers the real potential for instant escape from the familiar. 65 min.
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Camels Drink Water
2007. Sweden. Directed by Nathalie Djurberg. Nathalie Djurberg, a Berlin-based artist whose short animations are in many public and private collections, receives her New York theatrical premiere with this curious view of camels and liquids. 4 min.
In the Film exhibition New Directors/New Films
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