Caterpillar (1988) – Shozin Fukui.

Shozin Fukui's fascinating, low-budget experimental art-core horror/weird short has a great band, striking visuals, and a frequently disorientating, pleasingly surrealistic bent. Haunting, imaginative, obtuse, and strangely hypnotic, I royally dug it, but I'm an obscurantist, botty-obsessed shut-in with an increasingly tenuous grasp on reality! Caterpillar features a heady kaleidoscope of frenzied Super-8 captured imagery, and Fukui's dynamic use of stop-motion effects often recalls Tsukamoto's iconic Tetsuo. I also appreciated the eerie live band inserts, and dissonant, overtly masticatory soundtrack. It is clear that the shambling, mentally pixelated characters in Caterpillar are suffering from some sickening urban malaise, and it is left entirely to the dazed viewer to surmise their agony. Creepy and kawaii, weirdy and kawaii, trippy and Kawaii, just like I.