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A night-time drive through Tokyo transforms into a dizzying sensory experience
In this short video, Hiroshi Kondo uses lights from a late-night highway drive through his home city of Tokyo as inspiration for a kaleidoscopic ballet. Set to the frenzied piano score of Ayako Taniguchi, the film quickly transforms common sights into reflected images that render the urban space magical, the familiar otherworldly.
Director: Hiroshi Kondo
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Economics
A tour of New York’s gaudiest neighbourhood with the Marxist geographer David Harvey
13 minutes
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Film and visual culture
Space and time expand, contract and combust in this propulsive animation
5 minutes
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Consciousness and altered states
‘I want me back’ – after a head injury, Nick struggles with his altered reality
7 minutes
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Art
The sprawling mural that depicts an unflinching people’s history of Los Angeles
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Art
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Cities
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Art
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Values and beliefs
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5 minutes
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Film and visual culture
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