Preceded by short: Hong Kong Song (Robert Cahen, France, 1989). The febrile nature of this metropolis is amplified by an eerie wash of color, unique visual effects, and the hectic sounds of the daily bustle. The teeming harbor, the crowded avenues all become a spasm of sensual activity within Cahen's gaze. (21 mins, Color, 3/4" Video, From Electronic Arts Intermix) Fasten your seat belts for Stefaan Decostere's bristling Deja Vu, a super-charged tour through the info-space of Tokyo culture. With the relish of a sensory glutton, Decostere's tour guide steps into a mediated phantasm of simulated cultural sites: a western town with a singing animatronic of Dean Martin, a love hotel fashioned after the Queen Elizabeth II, a sports bar called the NFL Experience, a six-story night club complete with alien planet. This scintillating videowork depicts a new kind of travel in which time (and history) is subsumed within a deja vu future, a future of recycled nostalgia. The hybrid nature of Tokyo society, its tendency to replicate other cultural models, has made tourism an almost de facto status of citizenry. Fuelled by ubiquitous media, the hyper-presence of recombinant culture intermingles with much of Tokyo experience. Deja Vu simulates this sense of a processed society through an intensely paced play of images. Decostere uses Tokyo to predict a foreseeable future when global culture will be a theme park of consumption and rootlessness.-Steve Seid