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.
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2025-11-24 11:01
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In this mesmerising short from 1991, thousands of Japanese newspaper clippings form a prescient vision of our digital world- by Aeon VideoWatch on Aeon
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