Movielogr

Shift (1982)

Directed by Toshio Matsumoto

Experimental | Short

Overview

By cutting up and zoom in on images of facades creates Matsumoto visual effects.

Length 9 minutes

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
01/27/2025ComputerStreamingVideo on Demand5.5 stars
 

Viewing Notes

There’s a big cartoon robot hand that looks copied from Yellow Submarine that drops in and it is the wildest thing. One of the comments on the video:

“idk y but when it briefly paused and the hand animation scrolled down. I nearly shit myself, scared the fuck out of me.”

LOL

I didn’t have quite that reaction but it was freaky. If Matsumoto changed up the buildings this would’ve been more interesting. But you get your fill of Japanese Brutalist, which probably isn’t that brutalist in this case but the video makes it seem so.

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