The Films of Hisayasu Sat: Volume #4 w/SLIP

Between his earliest films in the mid 1980s and his 1990s “golden age,” Hisayasu Sat consistently developed and honed his cinematic voice. Drawing on contrasts in his work across radically different career stages, these three films offer a range of insights into the artist’s most compelling and recurring obsessions.

One of his earliest features, SAVE THE LAST DANCE FOR ME (1986), Sat offers a meta-reflection on learning his craft through the story of two former film students facing the world and their own troubled relationship, through video-voyeurism and sex work. When violence manifests within sexual situations, a sense of fatalism threatens to take the lovers to darker places. A profound meditation upon loneliness and especially distance, both physical and perceived, Sat begins his visual experiments involving rephotographed video textures and discordant dialogue.

In SURVEY MAP OF PARADISE LOST (1988), an investigative reporter gets wra