"In his short film Papers (1991), the Japanese artist Yoshinao Satoh assembles thousands of newspaper images into a transfixing animation. Moving through a flurry of Japanese characters, moon phases, Go games, house plans and faces that grows ever faster, Satoh creates a mass-media collage that seems to anticipate the age of information overload. Amplifying the frenzied pace and mesmerising effect, he pairs the imagery with a propulsive work by the US composer Steve Reich."
"In his short film Papers (1991), the Japanese artist Yoshinao Satoh assembles thousands of newspaper images into a transfixing animation. Moving through a flurry of Japanese characters, moon phases, Go games, house plans and faces that grows ever faster, Satoh creates a mass-media collage that seems to anticipate the age of information overload. Amplifying the frenzied pace and mesmerising effect, he pairs the imagery with a propulsive work by the US composer Steve Reich."
Yoshinao Satoh assembles thousands of newspaper images into a transfixing short animation titled Papers (1991). The imagery includes Japanese characters, moon phases, Go games, house plans and faces presented in rapid succession. The sequence accelerates progressively, producing a dense, mass-media collage that evokes the sensation of information overload. Satoh enhances the frenzied pace and hypnotic quality by pairing the visuals with a propulsive musical work by the US composer Steve Reich. The combined audio-visual effect intensifies momentum and mesmerises the viewer through relentless repetition and accelerating montage.
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