
Kyūkei
1981, Japanese. Directed by George Iida.
A landscape that has been filmed once is projected onto a screen and then filmed again. The re-shot screen changes with the sound of quick beats. An unremarkable local landscape. Roads stretching through rice paddies, clusters of telephone poles, wooden houses with large eaves. These landscapes are transformed into a blur of memory for the purpose of reshooting. The electrically produced noise-like acoustics and the sound of beating quislings beat the landscape out of the memory circuits of the brain. For a moment, a girl stands in front of a screen of landscape, and the landscape rotates around her. The whole work is more than an idea, including the composition in which the synthesis of a kind of screen process brings about change.
- Runtime
- 0h 10m
- Post-credits
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- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 1 January 1981
- Original title
- 休憩
- Country
- Japan
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Kyūkei runs 10 minutes (0h 10m).
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Kyūkei isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1981. (Checked 3 November 2026.)
What movies are like Kyūkei?
If you liked Kyūkei, try Chronos, Whiplash, Koyaanisqatsi.
Who directed Kyūkei?
Kyūkei (1981) was directed by George Iida and stars Chino Tetsuya, Saito Fumika.