ANALIFE
(アナライフ)
Dir. Kenji Goda. 2005.
Japan. 83 min.
In English and Japanese with English subtitles.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3 — 10 PM
FRIDAY, JUNE 12 — 10 PM
TUESDAY, JUNE 16 — 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, JUNE 26 — 10 PM
A rapist, a murderer, and a dumpster diver all find themselves in the waiting room at the same proctologist…
What may sound like the setup for a cruel joke is in fact the premise of Kenji Goda’s groundbreaking and predictive hyperlink cinema masterpiece, ANALIFE, in which our three weaving heroes discover that a hole is never just a hole.
Developed between 1995 and 2005, filmmaker and game director Kenji Goda sought to express what he witnessed at the arrival of the Information Age: our global consciousness was starting to fracture and the guts of human emotion and identity had flipped inside out. Soon enough, our webs would become our cages, and our thirst for human connection would push us towards increasingly psychotic tactics. To Goda, it was clear: the fruit from our digital garden had already begun to rot.
Deploying a disembodied, corporate voiceover à la Chris Morris’ late-nite cult radio program BLUE JAM and infectiously scored by the late Rei Harakami (part of duo yanokami, alongside the legendary Akiko Yano), ANALIFE is an abjectly transcendent, WAX-like assault from a once-future world where “all morals are engulfed in the flood of images” and a hole in the heart is worth filling with something more sublime. Give your regards to the bear this June at Spectacle.
Join us after the feature to see where it all began with:
PERSPECTIVE OF POWER
Dir. Kenji Goda. 1995.
Japan. 21 min.
No spoken language.
Provided by the director, this extremely rare low-fidelity viewing opportunity provides essential context, examining many of the themes later explored in ANALIFE. Something best viewed on your Nokia at 4 AM, but Spectacle will do in a pinch.
WARNING: STROBE, SEXUAL VIOLENCE