Fuji

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japan abstract short film mount fuji experimental

Fuji

Release Date: December 31, 1974

Year	:	1974
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Genres	:	Animation
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Director	:	Robert Breer
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RunTime	:	8 mins.

A live action footage of a smiling, bespectacled (presumably) Western tourist set against the familiar cadence of an accelerating train revving up as it leaves the station sets the mesmerizing tone for the film's abstract panoramic survey of an Ozu-esque Japanese landscape of electrical power lines, passing trains, railroad tracks, and the gentle slope of obliquely peaked, uniform rooflines as Breer distills the essential geometry of Mount Fuji into a collage of acute angles and converging (and bifurcating) lines .