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#411 - I Don't Like Sand (Patreon)

Published:
2023-03-14 19:53:39
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2024-06

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A man spends a night in an isolated woman's desert shack, and loses his identity in the process, in WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964), Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kōbō Abe's resonant parable about... what, exactly? Your hosts are not entirely sure, but forge ahead anyway with this seminal work of postwar Japanese cinema. 

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Ave

Pitfall might be a good fit for the podcast, since it's the Teshigahara/Abe film with the most clear political-economy reading. Abe is a fascinating writer who I was obsessed with in my 20s. The Face of Another, his follow-up to Woman in the Dunes, was also adapted but it's a book that lends itself even less to filming. I think the last one they did together, The Ruined Map/Man Without a Map was the best of the movies but it's been a while since I watched them all. Teshigahara inherited a very prestigious family flower arranging school, which I think placed him very highly in a certain conservative aesthetic national elite. one of his last movies is a historical period film about a court master of tea ceremonies, who I've seen taken as a sort of Teshigahara stand-in.

Guy Nelson

There’s a film by Nicolas Roeg called Walkabout which has similar themes. Might be worth checking out for your own personal joy or perhaps analysis for the podcast.