Lost In Transience

From Boing Boing TV: Dowa Mondai: Assimilation Issues, a wonderfully unorthodox Bob Jaroc short shot through the eyes of a Tokyo drifter living in poverty near trendy Shibuya. Jaroc interprets a community on the periphery through dislocated film strips and captions, and second-long glimpses of the people's personal affects.



In other Boing Boing news, be sure to check out Boing Boing WORLD. In the first series the BB folks give a marginalized Guatemalan community the chance to film their culture themselves with Flip phones. It's like an anthropological documentary turned inside out.