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Video Letter
JAPAN · 1983

Video Letter

Shuji Terayama
mortality and legacy poetic correspondence experimental video art philosophical dialogue artistic intimacy
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Synopsis

This remarkable compilation follows an exchange of video letters that took place between Shuji Terayama and Shuntaro Tanikawa in the months immediately preceding Terayama's death. It can be thought of as a home video produced by two preeminent poets and inter-laid with highly abstract philosophizing, slightly aberrant behavior and occasionally flamboyant visuals.

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