JUNK FILMS THE COLLECTED SHORT SHOCKUMENTARIES OF TSURISAKI KIYOTAKA

Without wanting to scare anyone off, a warning is not out of place with this film. Tsurisaki Kiyotaka is a photographer and filmmaker who has specialized in corpses. People who stand still and watch the aftermath of a car crash can cope, others may want to take an aisle seat. Tsurisaki Kiyotaka is primarily a photographer. his exhibitions of photographs featuring corpses is internationally successful. Not washed, prepared bodies lying in state before burial, but decayed bodies or ones torn open that are found on rubbish tips or after a road-traffic accident. As a film maker, he takes more or less the same approach as he does as a photographer. he travels the world as a war photographer. Only he’s not interested in the fighting, but in what is left after the battle; in the bodies of those who didn’t survive. his pictures are surprisingly unsensational. he registers from a distance, like an ordinary bystander at an accident. The film, made up like a photo album from a series of short films, is also about the spectators and about the viewers who dare to watch his film.