The Vipers

This film, which won an award at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, shows Paris in quick panning shots and a shaky views. Shots of people sharing joints are intercut with long out-of-focus scenes, and the distorted movement of bodies scenes or multiple exposures imitates altered states of mind and the hallucinatory world of the era’s counterculture.

Japanese-American filmmaker Shinkichi Tajiri (1923–2009) was active as a sculptor and director in the Netherlands. His short films explored war, sex, drugs and violence.

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