Over the years I've seen this title mentioned in various places, but never saw the chance to encounter it. Looking at Shudder UK's films listings,I was happily surprised to see it streaming,leading to me pumping iron.
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Spending 18 months putting all the wages from his regular job into the production, leading to a burn out with the crew and the film maker even becoming tempted to burn the negative due to the stress over completing it,animator/co-star/ production designer/editor/co-cinematographer/producer/writer and director (!) Shin'ya Tsukamoto builds a magnificently transgressive Cyberpunk creation.
Using his own flat as the editing room and the main location, the strong personal hold Tsukamoto has on the title blossoms into ultra-stylisation of stop-motion animation being skillfully welded onto the practical effects building of the man.
Pieced together in grainy black and white,Tsukamoto brings The Metal Fetishist back to life with frenzied jump-cuts/scrambled close-ups being mashed up with hyper-stylised long Kinetic whip-pans rushing towards the Fetishist drilling the man who killed him into a grotesque surreal Horror creation of flesh and twisted metal.
One of the few in the crew to not quit the production, Tsukamoto's regular composer Chu Ishikawa reveals why Tsukamoto kept the dialogue to a handful of lines, by delivering an extremely expressive Industrial score, thanks to Ishikawa layering each individual grind over the other, keeping the heart of the Iron Man beating, as he long lives for the new flesh.
View on the film:
Spending 18 months putting all the wages from his regular job into the production, leading to a burn out with the crew and the film maker even becoming tempted to burn the negative due to the stress over completing it,animator/co-star/ production designer/editor/co-cinematographer/producer/writer and director (!) Shin'ya Tsukamoto builds a magnificently transgressive Cyberpunk creation.
Using his own flat as the editing room and the main location, the strong personal hold Tsukamoto has on the title blossoms into ultra-stylisation of stop-motion animation being skillfully welded onto the practical effects building of the man.
Pieced together in grainy black and white,Tsukamoto brings The Metal Fetishist back to life with frenzied jump-cuts/scrambled close-ups being mashed up with hyper-stylised long Kinetic whip-pans rushing towards the Fetishist drilling the man who killed him into a grotesque surreal Horror creation of flesh and twisted metal.
One of the few in the crew to not quit the production, Tsukamoto's regular composer Chu Ishikawa reveals why Tsukamoto kept the dialogue to a handful of lines, by delivering an extremely expressive Industrial score, thanks to Ishikawa layering each individual grind over the other, keeping the heart of the Iron Man beating, as he long lives for the new flesh.