![]() ![]() ![]() The quality of the video is low-tech, raw and eerie fantastically evocative of how dreams might appear if they could be taped and replayed. Thai filmmaker and artist Weerasethakul’s video accompaniment to Sakamoto’s music features three main elements: footage of a crowd in front of an outdoor cinema screen that blazes in the dark like a portal into another universe traveling down a mundane country road at different times of the day and people sleeping. ![]() Sakamoto’s album, which comes after a long break, which included being diagnosed with throat cancer, was conceived as a soundtrack to an imaginary film, and Sakamoto uses the poem “And this I dreamt, and this I dream” by Arseny Tarkovsky (1907-89), father of filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, as spoken word in the album and printed text in the exhibition. ![]()
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