“Beyond Earshot: Transcribing Meaning in Shunji Iwai’s 𝑈𝑛𝑑𝑜” by Miran Tsay

“Beyond Earshot: Transcribing Meaning in Shunji Iwai’s 𝑈𝑛𝑑𝑜” by Miran Tsay

RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONSRETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Shunji Iwai (director), Undo, 1994. 47 min. The film Undo (1994) by Shunji Iwai is modest in length at just 47 minutes. Yet the narrative never felt rushed, and the scenes even less so. Shots linger in silence or in the soft white noise of a running bath. Dialogue is strikingly sparse—sound, even more so. Gentle classical music often overrides the couple’s conversations, assertin…