Ai

Short animation by Kuri Youji. "A corrosive comment on romantic love by the brilliant Japanese animator Yoji Kuri; a bedraggled male is chased endlessly in alienated landscapes by a voracious female continually repeating the word 'Ai' ('love', in Japanese). Her attempts at domesticating him with a chain fail; but the chase continues, forever." Description from Film as Subversive Art (1976), by Amos Vogel iMore information on Kuri at: http://www.pelleas.net/aniTOP/index.php?p=118&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1/i Date of first screening unknown, but in 1963.