Talking In New York

Talking In New York

Synopsis

"Talking in New York, is a kind of first person cinema where Iimura is the cameraman as well as the actor. Acting like a total stranger in the city who does not speak or hear the language, he walks with a camera to such sight-seeing spots as Times Square, and the top of the Empire State building, etc., only listening to himself speaking the words: 'I hear myself at the same time that I speak' in two languages: Japanese and English. The words are a quotation from the book by Jacques Derrida, which he calls 'phenomenological essence.'" – Takahiko Iimura