For My Crushed Right Eye

For My Crushed Right Eye is an expanded, triple 16 mm film by Toshio Matsumoto, whose two projected images touch side-by-side, while the third overlaps them producing tectonic machine for "premonitions about much larger movements in the Earth's crust, in the values and modes of perception of the world that would undermine modernity itself," as he said. Matsumoto made this triangle of crushed image in 1968, as part of Art Theatre Guild production, an influential organization for the rise of independent and underground cinema in Japan, as well as his first feature film Funeral Procession of Roses, with shared footage and anti-Oedipal theme in the title, deconstruction of Freudian Oedipus or organization of desire through familial structure of (Japanese) capitalism. Editing pop music delirium re-composes the autoreferential face of revolutionary era with distant premonitions of the great socio-political transformations, students' struggle over US Security Treaty in Japan, actual-fictional portrait of Japanese gay and underground excesses - the face of crushed right eye. (Tanja Vrvilo)