a little faith

Takashi Ito is a Japanese experimental filmmaker. A quote by the man himself:

  "Film is capable of presenting unrealistic world as a vivid reality and creating a strange space peculiar to the media. My major intention is to change the ordinary every day life scenes and draw the audience (myself) into a vortex of supernatural illusion by exercising the magic of films." - (Takashi Ito, in Image Forum, Oct. 1984)

I think this quote represents how even the mundane has a fantastical potential, all thanks to technology. Film as a medium can serve as a literal gateway to unexplored worlds...or it can make ours a little bit more interesting. Depends on your perspective.

A music video directed by David Dean Burkhart, using Andy Stott's "Faith in Strangers" and clips from Ito's Grim, Ghost and Hunger captures his unique vision in mystical ways...haven't been this enchanted in awhile.