If RoboGeisha sits on the trashy Midnight Movie end of the spectrum then Woman In The Dunes is its polar opposite: a highly respected and critically acclaimed movie adapted from a Japanese literary classic. Woman In The Dunes might have a strong reputation, but that doesn't prevent it from featuring some truly surreal and striking imagery as it tells the story of an aspiring entomologist who has to put aside his passion for insects when he is tricked into living deep in a hole in the desert with the titular woman and forced to shovel away the sand which ceaselessly tumbles into the pit. The image of the impossible to complete task is one which has been with us since the Ancient Greek tale of Sisyphus. Relocated to the dunes and with an eerie, experimental soundtrack by Toru Takemitsu it becomes something both intoxicating and delirious.
