Incomplete Chairs had its world première at Slash Film Festival 2025, 24th Sept Kenichi Ugana’s Incomplete Chairs is, among other things, a peculiar character study. Intense, uptight, arrogant and odd, with the top button of his shirt always closed, protagonist Shinsuke Kujo (Ryu Ichinose) is an up-and-coming ‘chair artist’ whose designs are displayed on his…
The prologue to Forever Mine (fka Have Hold Take) is a disorienting montage. First we see three doors marooned alongside one another in a smoky void. Then there is a luxurious house – a real space but also, thanks to the bold whites, blacks and reds of its classically decorated interiors, suggestive of a Lynchian limbo….
First published by Sight & Sound, April 2017 Review: The Eyes of My Mother opens with an over-the-shoulder shot of a man driving along a country road. As the Carolina Buddies’ The Lawson Family Murder plays on the truck’s radio, the driver stops and gets out to help a female figure who has collapsed in the…