Showtimes
Thursday, July 20th
Ticketing
Free + Exclusive to FACETS Film Club Members ($15/Month or $150/Year)
& Anime Auteurs Series Pass holders
($40/General & $34/Members)
“This is the ultimate rendition of a formative anime that has helped to shape fandom and is necessary viewing for any fan of the medium.” – Ollie Barder, Forbes
Resistance is Futile! Prepare to be “Otakunized” after watching this ode to fan culture presented by FACETS Anime Club followed by a secret 9pm screening.
This hilarious mockumentary features an animated tale of an average person who slowly becomes an otaku (obsessive fanatic) and eventually becomes the “Otaking”! Between story segments, live action interviews with fictional die-hard otakus take place.
A true treat for true fans of any genre, Takeshi Mori’s Otaku no Video (“Fan’s Video”) is an outrageous mockumentary that combines the superb animation that made GAINAX one of Japan’s best-loved animation studios with truly strange interviews with “real animation fans.” The result is a thinly fictionalized history of GAINAX that segues into a truly strange SF adventure. (Description adapted from AnimEigo)
This screening is exclusive to FACETS Film Club Members ($15/Month or $150/Year) and Anime Auteurs Series Pass holders.
Screening in Japanese with English subtitles.
Takeshi Mori. Japan. 1991. 100 minutes.
ANIME AUTEURS – Film Series
July 20-22, our Anime Auteurs series returns for a 5-film deep dive into the work of anime legends whose cultural influence and boundary-pushing films have come to define the peak of the art form. View full series.
