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Directed by | Takashi Ito |
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Running time | 5 minutes |
Country | Japan |
Thunder is a 1982 Japanese experimental short film directed by Takashi Ito. Shot on 16 mm film, [1] Thunder makes use of long-exposure photography. [2] Along with Ito's films Ghost (1984) and Grim (1985), Thunder has been noted for its ghostly imagery and ominous tone. [3] [4]
Thunder screened as part of the 34th Berlin International Film Festival in 1984, and was later shown at the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art in 1996. [5]
Thunder features a series of photographic slides of a woman repeatedly covering and uncovering her face with her hands, projected onto the interiors of an empty office building. The images bend and distort against the interior surfaces. Additionally, a long ribbon of light is seen curling and oscillating. The effect of the ribbon of light was produced using long-exposure photography, created frame-by-frame by a person with a flashlight moving throughout the building's rooms during long single-frame exposures. [2]
Thunder was released on DVD along with a number of Ito's other works as part of the Takashi Ito Film Anthology. [6]
[...] his other series such as Thunder (1982), Ghost (1984), and Grim (1985), which are occult experimental "horror" films featuring the technique of bulb shutters and time-lapse photography.
Ito Takashi's second period, which begins with the short film Thunder (1982), adds many of these elements to the experiments of the first: light painting, superimpositions, mystical demons, ghostly voices. [...] Thunder and the other films in this style—Ghost (1984), Grim (1985)—all portray retinal echoes of ghosts and televisions and lights, remnants of abandoned images, accompanied by insidious electronic soundtrack.