Tokyo Waka
Strange magic flows in the atmosphere of this documentary. The more time we spend with the crows--loud, hairy troll-like creatures with wings--the more they seem to take on mystical characteristics...
John Haptas is a documentary film editor. Among his editing credits are Soundtrack to a Riot for Frontline World (Emmy Nomination), Hunting the Hidden Dimension, a program on fractal geometry for PBS Nova ("Pierre-Gilles de Gennes" Science Film Prize), and Inside Guantanamo Bay, a two-hour National Geographic Explorer special (editor/co-writer; Emmy nominations for Best Documentary and for Writing). He recently finished editing Regarding Susan Sontag (Tribeca Film Festival, Special Jury Award; HBO broadcast December 2014).
[bio courtesy of the filmmaker]
Strange magic flows in the atmosphere of this documentary. The more time we spend with the crows--loud, hairy troll-like creatures with wings--the more they seem to take on mystical characteristics...
great photography. the message is confusing but interesting
Really love this subtle and poetic film that is at once a portrait of Tokyo and a meditation on the relationship between humans and other creatures.
Really enjoyed this film! Very well done.
Memorable for the evocation of Tokyo and its crows, the city's homeless people and its overgrown, intergrown architecture. The documentary's varied and articulate speakers and points of view lift the...