In Level Five, a computer-game programmer tries to erase the history of Japanese atrocities

Experimental filmmaker Chris Marker revisits the bloody Battle of Okinawa in Level Five. by Ben Sachs French filmmaker Chris Marker all but created his own genre, interweaving elements of documentary, fiction, experimental, and essay filmmaking into vibrant cine-mosaics. His 1997 feature Level Five, screening for the first time in Chicago this weekend, is characteristically dense and flowing, much easier to watch than to summarize.…

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