Ginrin (1955)

Original title

銀輪

Directed by

Toshio Matsumoto

Country

Japan

Runtime

12 min

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short color film promotes Japanese bicycles using experimental cinema techniques. An avant-garde collective made it with a musique concrete score.

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What happens

Ginrin (銀輪; "Silver Ring"), also known as Bicycle in Dream and Silver Wheels, is a 1955 Japanese short promotional colour film directed by Genichiro Higuchi, Toshio Matsumoto and Masao Yabe in collaboration with the Jikken Kōbō avant-garde art collective. It was written by Shozo Kitashiro, Matsumoto and Katsuhiro Yamaguchi for the Japan Bicycle Industry Association and was Matsumoto's first film. The film promotes Japanese bicycles, using experimental cinema techniques. The musique-concrète score was by Hiroyoshi Suzuki and Tōru Takemitsu. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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