Arakimentari A documentary look inside the mind of Japan's most controversial photographer. Featuring Bjork, Takeshi Kitano, Richard Kern and Daido Moriyama. Dir. Travis Klose, In English and Japanese with English subtitles, Adults only, Documentary, 2003, 79 mins Official Selection, SLAMDANCE International Film Festival 2003 A look at the life and work of Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki and his impact on Japanese culture. According to this wild biographical portrait of one of the world's most notorious photographers, there used to only be two contexts for the representation of female nudity in Japan: high art and smut. Nobuyoshi Araki changed all that. Says one admiring colleague, "he made art and porn the same thing." Travis Klose's doc captures the high-spirited, irrepressibly vulgar artist at work and play -- tying up nude models in elaborate bondage set-ups, flirting with his subjects and rampaging through the streets of his beloved Tokyo in search of inspiration. But the film also contains a serious appreciation of Araki's enormous (and enormously varied) body of work from curators, fellow photographers and celebrity friends like Björk and actor-director Takeshi Kitano, who ruefully notes, "Araki seems to enjoy his work more than I do." -- Jason Anderson, Eye Weekly No one under 18 admitted.