Toshio Matsumoto’s early 1970’s feature length film Funeral Parade of Roses is widely cited as a big influence on Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange but today we have a truly mad short subject by said director, a simple yet brain-frying (epileptics, beware !) infrared study of a lone, masked subject in a landscape, replete with a chaotic electronic score by Toshi Ichiyanagi. Dizzying and possibly bad for you !

 
thx Keith Fullerton Whitman !

really? that needed to be 12 minutes long and busted into 2 parts? i mean, i got the psychedelia of it in the first 90 seconds. and, yeah, i did watch the whole thing, and my brain and vision are a little mushy right now as a result.

cool idea. trippy score.
and i’m sure it was mind-blowing 35 years ago.
and i understand the inappropriateness of cropping someone else’s artistic work. but it still could have been edited down to the yout limit without losing any of its meaning or impact.

That was a beautiful post, thank you for making such a movie experience avaliable. I’ll now look into some of his other works, hoping there are some others avaliable online.