Dominant Fiction
Director Manuela Mark
Countries Austria
Duration 22 min
Synopsis
We travel through a world, which is at once real and imaginary: Starkly framed still and moving pictures of Tokyo's urban spaces as well as historical photo, film and video material are confronted with Western settings – fairytales, travelogs. Dominant Fiction tells of the exoticization of the "other", the formation of the collective imagination, and of the construction of story and history. The film describes the meeting and unsettled relationship between Europe/America and Japan, making reference to Charles Perraultʼs “Bluebeard” fairy-tale, among others.
We travel through a world, which is at once real and imaginary: Starkly framed still and moving pictures of Tokyo's urban spaces as well as historical photo, film and video material are confronted with Western settings – fairytales, travelogs. Dominant Fiction tells of the exoticization of the "other", the formation of the collective imagination, and of the construction of story and history. The film describes the meeting and unsettled relationship between Europe/America and Japan, making reference to Charles Perraultʼs “Bluebeard” fairy-tale, among others.