Hotel Aporia (2019) - FAQ
Frequently asked questions about this film.
What is Hotel Aporia about?
Hotel Aporia is a documentary. Ho Tzu Nyen's Hotel Aporia features a cast of historical figures from Japan's interwar period, including World War Two kamikaze pilots, philosophers of the Kyoto School, filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, and animator Ryuichi Yokoyama. They were all caught up in the heady mix of Japan's militant nationalism, anti-modernism, and cultural propaganda. Letters and correspondence between the artist and his Japanese collaborators, the writers Tomoyuki Arai and Yoko Nose, form the narrative basis of the work. Experimenting with the epistemological and affective capacities of animation, Ho superimposes animation images of featureless faces onto found footage clips from Ozu's fiction films and Ryuichi Yokoyama's animation propaganda films. This is a single-screen cinematic presentation of Hotel Aporia. Its original form, first presented at the Aichi Trienanle, is a video installation projecting layers of animation and hybrid-animation images onto multiple screens within a heritage building.
When was Hotel Aporia released?
Hotel Aporia was released in 2019.
How long is Hotel Aporia?
Hotel Aporia has a runtime of 84 minutes.
What genre is Hotel Aporia?
Hotel Aporia is classified as History.