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Déjà-vu speaks of virtual tourism in Japan, based on the idea
of being somewhere else without ever leaving ones homeland. This
one-hour documentary presents Japan as a world fabricator of déjà-vu
future, exploring the characteristics and directions emergent
in this era of cultural experience through both the familiar European,
and contrasting Japanese models. Shot in marriage halls, museums,
temples and sects, love hotels and theme parks all over Japan.
This is the new Japan, where everything is different from what
you see, as long as it manages to evoke a sense of recognition.
Fiction is reality, reality is fiction.
DéjàVu is the last part in the Travelogues video series, directed
by Stefaan Decostere. This ultimate hallucination of an artistic
ambition, which deals with mass-media, is a disturbing film. Its
message is that in the future it will no longer be the interventions
and intentions of the intellectuals and artists, but rather the
reflexes and schemes of commerce and tourism that will determine
the nature of cultural institutions. |