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Tóquio Porto 9 horas (2008)

Tóquio Porto 9 horas poster
Directed by
João Nuno Brochado
Genre
documentary film
Country
Portugal
Runtime
8 min
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An 8 minute black-and-white documentary showing ordinary daily scenes from Tokyo on one side of the screen and comparable scenes from Porto, Portugal on the other. The film contrasts the two cities which are nine hours apart in time.

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What happens

Tóquio Porto 9 horas (dt.: Tokio Porto 9 Stunden) ist ein Kurzfilm des portugiesischen Regisseurs João Nuno Brochado aus dem Jahr 2008. Der 8-minütige Dokumentarfilm vergleicht den Alltag in den beiden Städten Tokio und Porto, die durch einen Zeitunterschied von neun Stunden getrennt sind. Der Film entstand an der Katholischen Universität in Porto. Er wurde in der Split-Screen-Technik in Schwarz-Weiß gedreht. In der linken Hälfte werden Alltagsszenen aus Tokio gezeigt, in der rechten vergleichbare Szenen aus Porto. Er stand 2008 im nationalen Kurzfilmwettbewerb des Festivals Doclisboa. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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