Marker's letter home from Japan is a dense, richly textured and
evocative meditation on a lifetime's worth of travel and observation.
His eye for telling details is extraordinary, finding ways into alien
cultures through moments of half-glimpsed insight. There's
something encyclopaediacal about his urge to make connections
between people, places, practices; this is a film essay which gives
equal attention to videogames, cat deities and Hitchcock's Vertigo.
Between the streams of images and voiceover, there's far more than can
be grasped in a single sitting, but it's a film that rewards
re-watching.
