Hole Head 2010 - Program Guide 'Symbol'
Symbol
Dir: Hitoshi Matsumoto
Hitoshi Matsumoto, who brought the world the bizarre and madly comic romp of ‘Big Man Japan,’ takes his visual perspective to the highest extremes of surrealism. Yes, it is beyond strange and he takes us for an in depth journey in what appears to be the inner workings of his brain. This is his brain. This is his brain on the inside. It’s really strange inside. Go figure. The director plays himself, in pajamas and he is locked within an all white room. Dreaming? Are you dreaming? Perhaps a man dreaming that he is a butterfly?
So, we have a man captured in an all white room alone with only small, white penis-tips. I am not making this up. As he pushes these tips, an audible beeping of an angel speaks out and something from the material world then pops into his place. So many things are delivered, so many of them useless. Ah, commentary on the useless nature of consumerism? That would be my guess here. Everything in abundance with the possible exception of that ever-elusive escape from the confines of his imprisonment. There is a floating key that is just out of his grasp. The key? Do you have the key? The key to the locking and unlocking of consciousness? Dr. Timothy Leary anyone? Certainly there are hints here at an alternate reality and glimpses of planes of existence that remind us that there is so much more than we see. There is so much more than we would even imagine. Beyond the white room? There is also the “real world.” We follow the bizarre daily life of Escargot Man, the masked Mexican wrestler in rural Mexico. As we are introduced to a foul-mouthed chain-smoking nun and a tight knit and somewhat traditional family I am left wondering, could it get stranger than this? Yes, it can and it does. Eventually we notice that many of the actions within the white room/mind actually have a direct effect on the outside world. Ah, who would have ever guessed?
Symbol is an incredibly strange and visual film that takes us beyond the confines of the creative mind and out into the abyss.
You have never, ever seen anything like this!
-Mike Skurko
Dir: Hitoshi Matsumoto
Hitoshi Matsumoto, who brought the world the bizarre and madly comic romp of ‘Big Man Japan,’ takes his visual perspective to the highest extremes of surrealism. Yes, it is beyond strange and he takes us for an in depth journey in what appears to be the inner workings of his brain. This is his brain. This is his brain on the inside. It’s really strange inside. Go figure. The director plays himself, in pajamas and he is locked within an all white room. Dreaming? Are you dreaming? Perhaps a man dreaming that he is a butterfly?
So, we have a man captured in an all white room alone with only small, white penis-tips. I am not making this up. As he pushes these tips, an audible beeping of an angel speaks out and something from the material world then pops into his place. So many things are delivered, so many of them useless. Ah, commentary on the useless nature of consumerism? That would be my guess here. Everything in abundance with the possible exception of that ever-elusive escape from the confines of his imprisonment. There is a floating key that is just out of his grasp. The key? Do you have the key? The key to the locking and unlocking of consciousness? Dr. Timothy Leary anyone? Certainly there are hints here at an alternate reality and glimpses of planes of existence that remind us that there is so much more than we see. There is so much more than we would even imagine. Beyond the white room? There is also the “real world.” We follow the bizarre daily life of Escargot Man, the masked Mexican wrestler in rural Mexico. As we are introduced to a foul-mouthed chain-smoking nun and a tight knit and somewhat traditional family I am left wondering, could it get stranger than this? Yes, it can and it does. Eventually we notice that many of the actions within the white room/mind actually have a direct effect on the outside world. Ah, who would have ever guessed?
Symbol is an incredibly strange and visual film that takes us beyond the confines of the creative mind and out into the abyss.
You have never, ever seen anything like this!
-Mike Skurko
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