Tokyo dissolves into pure light—Aristotle meets ambient drone in 26 hypnotic minutes.
Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between light and darkness. Entirely composed of superimposed images of Tokyo’s landscape and water sites, the film takes its rhythm from the cycles of repetition that are the pillars of life and civilisation. As light emerges from the chaos, Jim O’Rourke’s ambient drone sets the tone for what is to come.
Cinematography
Layered Tokyo landscapes that dissolve into pure abstraction.
Score
Jim O'Rourke's drone becomes the film's heartbeat.
Direction
Makino crafts cinema as moving painting, not narrative.
Director
Takashi Makino
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Makino spent years developing his 'intense light' technique, shooting through multiple exposures until film stock nearly combusted—literal generation through corruption.
Aristotle's original treatise argued that all change requires a substratum that persists—Makino makes that substratum visible as flickering celluloid itself.
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