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SUMMARY:BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO
DESCRIPTION:May 28th - June 3rd:\nFri 5/28: 6, 7.45, 9.30\nSat 5/29: 2
 :30, 4:15\nSun 5/30: 2.30, 4.15, 6\nMon 5/31: 5.15\nTue 6/1: 5.15\nWed
  6/2: 6.30\nThur 6/3: 6, 7.45, 9.30\n\nPurchase tickets here.\n\n\n\n\
 n\"Jessica Oreck’s serenely abstract movie...approaches its subject 
 via some bizarre, wondrous images.\" - Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New Y
 ork\n\n\"Oreck engages in an enthusiastic cultural anthropology that t
 eases broad horizons from her nuanced attention to the infinitesimal.\
 " - Richard Brody, The New Yorker\n\n\"Eschewing character arcs and ta
 lking heads in favor of a more poetic approach, this lyrical exercise 
 in avant-garde entomology is the work of an intuitive filmmaker with a
 n often hypnotic sense of composition.\" - Justin Chang, Variety\n\n\n
 \n\n\ndir. Jessica Oreck\nJapan, 2009, digital, 90 min\n\nImagine cram
 ming 128 million people onto an island the size of Montana – you wou
 ld be pretty close to replicating the density of Japan. Not surprising
 ly, space is at a premium and ergonomic design is right up there next 
 to godliness.\n\nYet even in Tokyo, the pinnacle of this figurative �
 �can of sardines,” people of all ages still make room for a tiny bit
  of wilderness. It is only fitting that they have become captivated by
  nature’s most efficient invention in space, design and function –
  insects.\n\nSold live in vending machines and department stores, plas
 tic replicas included as prizes in the equivalent of a McDonald’s Ha
 ppy Meal and the subject of the No. 1 videogame, MushiKing, from the s
 mallest backyard to the top of Mt. Fuji, insects inspire an enthusiasm
  in Japan seen nowhere else in this world. Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
  discovers why Japan developed this rich and enriching social relation
 ship with insects.\n\nLike a detective story, the film untangles the w
 eb of influences behind Japan’s captivation with insects. It opens i
 n modern-day Tokyo where a single beetle recently sold for $90,000 the
 n slips back to the early 1800s, to the first cricket-selling business
  and the development of haiku and other forms of insect literature and
  art. Through history and adventure, Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo trave
 ls all the way back in time to stories of the fabled first emperor who
  named Japan the “Isle of the Dragonflies.”\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor mor
 e information visit http://www.downtownindependent.com/events/beetle-q
 ueen-conquers-tokyo
DTSTART:20100528T080000Z
DTEND:20100604T075900Z
CATEGORIES:film, documentary
LOCATION:downtown independent
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