Ecstatic _____

Ecstatic _____ (2023, pronounced Ecstatic Underscore) documents a performance by the percussionist Ryosuke Kiyasu (Fushitsusha, Sete Star Sept, Kiyasu orchestra), whose frenetic improvisation sets the rhythm of the film. Taking its cues from the physicality of this performance, the camera jumps and lurches through an anxious cityscape, creating a complex overlaying of systems, symbols and unspoken words. The film makes fleeting references to the iconographies of forgotten countercultures of the 1960s, particularly the radical Japanese film movement known as Landscape Theory. Reflexively drawing attention to the eye, the lens and the screen, Ecstatic _____ viscerally conveys capitalism's homogenising and dispiriting effects on the body and the psyche.

  • Adam Lewis Jacob
    Director
    Idrish, People Meeting in a Room
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Artists moving image
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 44 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 12, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    Japan
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, 16mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Adam Lewis Jacob

Adam Lewis Jacob is an artist and filmmaker based in Glasgow. His work is about the structures that govern our lives and the countercultural figures that question them. He uses the camera to create a space where ideas and people can be brought together, and unexpected relationships can occur. He is one of the founding members of Céline, an artist-run exhibition space in Glasgow. His work has been screened and exhibited at the Berwick Film and media Arts festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Alchemy Film festival, Kochi-Muziris biennale (india), studio 55 (Korea), lUX (london). in 2022 Adam participated in the esw/ToKAs residency program in japan, part of a consortium project by ESW, Hospitalfield, Cove Park, TOKAS, AiT and ARcUs supported by british council scotland and creative Scotland, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and the Great Britain sasakawa Foundation.

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