A few years ago, ScreenAnarchy posted about Fonotune: An Electric Fairytale and their crowdfunding campaign. Well, the world premiere happened to great success as Sitges festival last week. In another time and place, an impending apocalypse is in the air. People escape from reality through music, with the joyous soundtrack of their destruction provided by Radio (Yusuke Yamasaki), the nihilistic DJ at radio station Fonotune. Meanwhile, a lone drifter named Mono (Fint) embarks on an odyssey into the endless desert of the Big White Nothing to experience the nal cosmic performance of a mysterious rock star named Blitz (Guitar Wolf Seiji). Along the way, Mono crosses paths with teen hooker Stereo (Yuho Yamashita), lo- cowboy Analog (Kazushi Watanabe), and the sassy Bubblegum (Kiki Sukezane). Their...
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- 10/21/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Regular readers may remember we showcased the teaser for sci-fi road movie Fonotune - An Electric Fairytale last year. The team has recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to pull together the remaining funds necessary to complete their location shoot in, among other places, Utah's stunning salt flats. Directed by Fabian Huebner, who made the Uwe Boll documentary Visiting Uwe, produced by Catherine Morawitz and lensed by Jon Britt - who together brought us the exceptional giallo short Yellow back in 2012, Fonotune is a beautiful hybrid of Japanese punk music, European electro, and an American independent spirit, which looks to be coming together fantastically.Veteran Japanese rock n' roll legend Guitar Wolf Seiji has recently joined the cast, which already includes Visitor Q star Watanabe Kazushi, Yamashita...
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- 5/28/2014
- Screen Anarchy
The creative forces behind the hit short film Yellow and documentary Visiting Uwe have joined together for a new sci-fi road movie, Fonotune - An Electric Fairytale. Directed by Fabian Huebner, who previously helmed the documentary about controversial filmmaker Uwe Boll, Visiting Uwe, Fonotune stars Japanese actress Yamashita Yuho and Watanabe Kazushi, star of Miike Takashi's classic Visitor Q. There is also an appearance from the superb Japanese punk band, Electric Eel Shock (who I've seen play live and are utterly insane).Shot on location in Japan and, among other places, the salt flats of Utah, the first teaser for the film has just been released, and frankly it looks pretty gorgeous. As well it should, the cinematography is from Jon Britt, who was responsible for the startling look...
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- 6/5/2013
- Screen Anarchy
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