Oh! My Mother

Oh! My Mother

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 27, 1969

Runtime

0h 13m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

ああ!私の母

Production Companies

Electronic Arts Intermix

Director

Kohei Ando

Description

Writes Ando, "Oh! My Mother was the first work I made using a newly bought 16mm camera I had purchased with the writer Shuji Terayama in Paris. This piece was selected for the Oberhausen International Film Festival. In 1969, there were, of course, no video cameras like ones we see now, and color TVs were only found at broadcast television studios. I had just been employed at the TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System), and I often snuck into the studios after hours to experiment with the equipment. Oh! My Mother was made using the feedback effect, which is produced by infinitely expanding the image by looping the video."