Junk Films vs On the Impossibility of an Homage
On the Impossibility of an Homage has the higher audience score (10/10 against 1/10 for Junk Films). On the Impossibility of an Homage is the shorter watch at 19m compared with 1h 30m. Junk Films is the older of the two (2007 against 2024). Both are documentary movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Junk Films
On the Impossibility of an Homage| Junk Films | On the Impossibility of an Homage | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 1.0/10 | ★ 10.0/10 |
| Year | 2007 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 30m | 19m |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | Japan | Germany |
| Director | Kiyotaka Tsurisaki | Xandra Popescu |
| Main cast | – | Gabriela Durleci, Cristian Susu, Mirela Simniceanu, Ion Tugearu |
Synopsis
Junk Films
A controversial still photographer specializing in grim death portraits translates his morbid sensibilities to the moving picture to offer an affecting look at death from an entirely unique perspective. Tsurisaki Kiyotaka specializes in the kind of photography that most folks would shrink away from. Over the course of his career, Kiyotaka has photographed more than 1000 deaths, a focus that often finds him facing legal problems in his home…
On the Impossibility of an Homage
Given a portrait, who is responsible for the image we see, the painter or the subject? Ion used to be a a rockstar of Ballet in Communist Romania. When we first discussed the possibility of a portrait, Ion was initially thrilled. He’d been dreaming that someday there’d be a film about him. But during the filmmaking process Ion finds it hard to let go.
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