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ISHI

ISHI

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1-channel film installation (21‘20‘‘). 2.00:1 aspherical widescreen, stereophonic sound. A wife waits for her dead husband. An adaption of three japanese poems in three different translations. An examination of waiting and the slowness of time. An exercise in slow cinema.

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Original Language

English

Runtime

21 mins

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Cast

Franziska Gurowietz

Franziska Gurowietz

The wife

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