Last nights dreams contained some graphic imagery of tokyo (cinemato-graphic that is, as i never was there while awake).
The first image that i remember are the diagonal pedestrian crossings, that must be lost footage in translation as i saw bright colors and neon, that give rise to six streams of people crossing the streets and each other. Unfortunately, I lost someone somewhere in the
crowd.
The other is an endless looping of Tokyo highways with lots of over-, and underpasses respectively. This was all black and white so it must be footage from Tarkovski' Solaris.
Somewhere around 69 or early 70 Tarkovski went to Japan to shoot futuristic scenes at the world fair in Tokyo; they were bogged down through Soviet bureaucracy and arrived late (of course), when it was already closed down. so he went for shots of the Tokyo transit system, which must already have been quite a future shock for contemporary Russians.
Sometimes I do wonder how one can dream that vividly about places one never was. And maybe never will be.
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