This is the tenth film in the Stuttgart Fantasy Film Festival.
It's a simple film, but brilliant in its simplicity. Kato is a young man who
owns a cafe in a big city. He lives in an apartment above the cafe. He uses a
monitor to observe the cafe from his apartment. One day he finds out that
there's a two minute delay between the television screens in the cafe and his
apartment. He can speak to his past self from two minutes in the future.
Not satisfied with two minutes, he brings his screen from his apartment down
into the cafe and puts the two television screens facing one another. There
are pictures within pictures, each smaller picture a further two minutes in
the future.
The film is a comedy, but the temporal paradoxes are mind-bending. It has
similarities with "Primer", but on a smaller scale. This is my favourite film
of the festival so far. Films like this make me glad I'm attending the
festival.
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