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Hill attempts here a sort of meta-approach to Japanese language and culture. To describe this idea makes it sound unnecessarily complicated but the title makes much clear. He makes use of the open structure of Japanese to make words appear on the screen and then invert them, still producing a useful meaning. He shows us, as it were, the back-side, or the mirror-image. He does the same thing in his performances with two Noh actors, and the texts are naturally processed in the same sort of way. Piling complication on complication, he plays backwards words that were originally spoken back to front, making them sound alien but understandable. He used the same procedure in a previous production, based on a piece by Gregory Bateson 'Metalogue: Why do things get in a muddle'. The picture composition and the graphics are extremely beautiful.
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Erik Daams
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Music: Kazuo Eda, Don Kenny, Schichiro Ogawa / Noh, Calligraphy: Warren Calhoun, Production: Gary Hill, Katherine Anastasia, With: Don Kenny, Katherine Anastasia, Kazuo Eda, Shozo Nakamori, Kanta Nakamori
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