This is a rather difficult film to comment.. To start with, I had problems in understanding it.. there was so much information, so many mixture of formats, so many things unexplained.. and also the fact that it was bi-lingual (another interesting experiment that didn't quite work for me..) didn't help. There were some interesting concepts there: I liked the "shadow people versus ghost people" part (and the explanation of reality versus unreality through numbers) but then it was all left like that, without further explanation. I would like to see these concepts developed in a future film though. What exactly happened there? I'm not sure, but my guess is that nothing really happened. The beginning and the end were shot in a completely different way than the rest of the film. I suppose it had to do with the reality versus unreality. The beginning was beautifully shot on film and then for about 15-20 minutes it was shot on video as an amateur movie. It was strange, even though I think it worked on making the audience believe everything was really happening and not staged (was it?...) Then, as it seemed it would go on like that until the end (handheld video camera and lots of talking), slowly it developed into a horror/thriller film, even though always strange. Towards the end there were some intense moments and then it ended as it started, beautifully and calmly, in an anti-climax (and non-commercial) ending (after the growing tension). Overall, an interesting experimental piece that mixed film with video art but maybe a bit too ambitious.
Review of Akasha
