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Tokyo Loop

Tokyo Loop

Introduction

A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum. The stories are: Tokyo Strut (Sato Masahiko, Ueta Mio) Tokyo Trip (Tanaami Keiichi) Fishing Vine (Seike Mika) Yuki-chan (Oyama Kei) Dog & Bone (Shiriagari Kotobuki) Public Convenience (Tabaimo) TOKYO (Uda Atsuko) Black Fish (Aihara Nobuhiro) Unbalance (Ito Takashi) Tokyo Girl (Shimao Maho) Manipulated Man (Wada Atsushi) Nuance (Murata Tomoyasu) Hashimoto (Furukawa Taku) Funkorogashi (Kuri Yoji) Fig (Yamamura Koji) 12 O’Clock (Iwai Toshio)

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Gsarthotegga

It takes too long to write a description for all 16 shorts, so I'll just touch on the good, the bad, and the ugly (maybe even the weird). Don't be fooled by the looping shorts and the name Tokyo Loop, or you will be thrown for a loop, because most of these shorts aren't especially loopish other than 2 or 3. You definitely do get dull experiments, like the clock short with M.C. Escher patterns—or a bland digital rehash of Stan Brakhage's splashes of color on celluloid, which at least improves a bit as the hues shift into various shapes and figures: it might pique the eye, but it's ultimately irrelevant. An avant-garde screensaver. Whoop-de-doo. It's whatever, and like a lot of experiments, you can expect failures. While Yoji Kuri might occasionally fashion a gem out of his crudity, his ta…

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