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240 Hours in One Day
JAPAN · 1970

240 Hours in One Day

Hiroshi Teshigahara
time acceleration scientific experimentation human enhancement future society technology and mortality
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Synopsis

The final collaboration between Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kobo Abe, 240 Hours in a Day is a four-panel projection produced for the 1970 Osaka Expo. Set in the near future, a scientist invents an accelerator that increases the speed of human activity tenfold.

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