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Shift (1982)

Shift poster
Directed by
Toshio Matsumoto
Genre
documentary
Country
Japan
Runtime
9 min
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a short experimental film from Japan. It uses visual techniques to create a sense of shifting reality.

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What happens

Shift (Japanese: シフト:断層 Hepburn: Shifuto: Dansō) is a 1982 Japanese short experimental film directed by Toshio Matsumoto. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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