A cube rotates infinitely through landscape photographs, but it doesn't. Your brain insists on completion even when the geometry stops short. Takashi Ito films the exact moment perception breaks between what you see in space and what you flatten into understanding, then holds you there, watching the same 90-degree turn become a meditation on how your eyes lie to you.
A cube covered in landscape photographs appears to turn endlessly, even though it actually rotates only a quarter-turn. Takashi Ito builds the film from frame-by-frame shots of the box, using the same trick he employed in his earlier work SPACY. The film works as pure cinema, asking your brain to reconcile what it sees with what it knows is possible. By shifting between three dimensions and a flat plane and back again, it sets out to unsettle how the viewer perceives space. The effect is hypnotic and slightly disorienting, cinema reduced to image, motion and the gap between perception and reality.