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Making Out in Japan

Year of completion: 1996
Content type: Narrative Content
Format: Short
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 9 minutes
Production Status: Completed

Learn the language of Japanese intimacy in five easy steps. Japanese television and iconography is deconstructed and recontextualized in a humorous video which explores the language of intimacy and romance, as presented in a Japanese language lesson tape. The electronic landscapes of Tokyo's television and neon signage contrast with the traditional, if not cliched images of the classical Japanese environment - carp, the Buddha, a paper house, fishmarkets - but even western sexual values seem artificial in a culture known for its love hotels and its porous adoration of western culture.

Completion Year: 1996
Genres: Comedy
Format: Short
Production Status: Completed

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Cast

Eric Dorfman (voice) Yuji Stone, Janet Merewether

Awards

1996 — Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival

1997 — St Kilda Film Festival

Screenings

1997 — European Media Art Festival

1996 — Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival

1997 — Kasseler Dokumentarfilm & Videofest

1997 — St Kilda Film Festival

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Janet Merewether trading as Go Girl Productions

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