A master of combining the macabre with the nihilistic and featuring character studies of  ill-fated women on the brink of madness, Turtle Vision is one of Hisayasu Satô’s–the radical pinku eiga master–most melancholic, unsettling and unpredictable looks at doomed and demented relationships. Satô updates the tropes of a classic “rape and revenge” drama in a context of violent voyeurism and abstracted trauma. Dramatically photographed with exemplary use of Satô’s fixation on video and TV monitors, the story is framed around a dejected amateur videographer (working for an unknown shadowy outfit) infatuated with documenting the vengeful mutilations of a stoic sex-worker. Introduced by Cinematheque patron Alex O’Dell. Strictly adults only.