Haze (film)
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| German title | Haze |
| Original title | Haze |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 24; 49 minutes |
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| Director | Shin'ya Tsukamoto |
| script | Shin'ya Tsukamoto |
| production | Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Shin'ichi Kawahara |
| music | Chu Ishikawa |
| camera | Shin'ya Tsukamoto |
| cut | Shin'ya Tsukamoto |
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Haze is a 2005 Shin'ya Tsukamoto produced, authored, directed, acted, and DV recorded short film .
content
A man finds himself alone, with no memory or knowledge of his situation, in a body-tight, elongated, dark concrete room and is injured in the stomach by a mysterious, undefined violence. Again and again he breaks out in panic and despair because of his situation. He squeezes through more and more oppressive metal-concrete rooms, where violence sometimes happens to him through the premises. A room is so narrow that it has to drag its teeth along a metal pipe to move sideways. There are pointed, nail-like devices on the floor, and the protrusion that he clings to with his hands to relieve pressure on his feet is studded with sharp objects. He later observes strangely behaving men through a hole who are shortly thereafter torn to pieces by an unknown force. Again and again he hallucinates, u. a. of fireworks, or hears a female voice. Later, in a room with innumerable body parts, he meets a living woman, also injured in the stomach, who, like him, has no memory or idea of what is going on in this concrete labyrinth. They advise on their situation. The woman plans to continue down a canal that is filled with blood-red water containing body parts. The man accompanies the woman hesitantly. The canal is completely under water further down. The woman decides to continue diving, the man follows. He appears alone and climbs up a shaft that is blocked at the top. He bumps his head open and for the first time sees warm light and the room of an apartment. He sees a bloody hand peeking out from behind a piece of furniture which, as it turns out, belongs to the woman who is also alive, whom he now recognizes as his wife. He calls 911. There follows a scene in which the man, visibly aged, is wandering around on a roof between white towels that have been hung up to dry and the blue sky. This is followed by a scene where the man and woman - again at their previous age - sit together laughing, and fireworks can be heard and seen in the changing lighting of their faces.
criticism
"Shot with a DV camera and released theatrically in a 49-minute version," Haze "... resembles Tsukamoto's previous investigations into extremes of pain, rage and general madness, but it is also an experiment in minimalist technique and narrative. It's one tiny camera filming one desperate man with only one objective: escape. … In filming his trapped hero up close Tsukamoto had to use outside light and open one side of his concrete hellhole, giving him - and us - metaphorical breathing space. "
"The 49-minute horror film Haze is not for the claustrophobic. ... The first half of the movie is scarier than the second. … Once the man finds companionship, Haze loses its terrifying grip, and the scenario suggests a Japanese horror adaptation of Samuel Beckett 's Happy Days. But when the couple discover a possible exit, the film loses its metaphysical dimension and turns into a banal escape drama. "
Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers 2005
A 24-minute version of the film was shown on April 28, 2005 at the Jeonju International Film Festival (South Korea). Every year since 2000, the festival has invited three directors to shoot in digital format as part of a project (Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers) on a given topic and provides each director with $ 50,000. In addition to Tsukamoto, the South Korean Song Il-gon and the Thai Apichatpong Weerasethakul made contributions.
In later performances and publications, the film has a running time of 49 minutes.
Film festivals
- Jeonju International Film Festival (April 28, 2005)
- New York Film Festival (October 1, 2005)
- Viennale 2005 (in the form of Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers 2005)
- Lyon Asiexpo Film Festival (November 12, 2005)
- FilmAsia Festival (December 3, 2005)
- Cologne Cineasia Film Festival (December 10, 2005)
- Mar del Plata Film Festival (March 11, 2006)
- Dead by Dawn Horror Film Festival (April 21, 2006)
Web links
- Official website
- Haze in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Haze in the online movie database