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Forte III

Forte III | 2009 | Jen-Kuang Chang   She was eternally blah-blah-blahing about Erik Akkersdijk, the champion of Speedcubing who solved Rubik’s Cube puzzle in oh-my-goodness 7.08 sec. as her up-to-the-odd-minute idol. It was 10:21 pm; my neighbor was playing Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer recording like there-is-no-tomorrow; and my pet baby kangaroo was super-late for her beauty sleep. “Yawn.” I said and fixed my eyes on Yōjirō Takita’s 2008 film...

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Old Market District & Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

The Old Market Passage | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang Buttering this morning of subdued light and sound with Yōjirō Takita’s film Okuribito and one cup of double-shot espresso, perfected with reddish-brown crema, was a glee in my minimalistic day. Masahiro Motoki and Tsutomu Yamazaki’s performances, deliciously sandwiched with Joe Hisaishi’s film music, brewed a tissue of glutinous emotions tailing me all the way to the Bemis Center for...

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