The STAREMASTER SODA!JP2014 film is a video portrait of the Tokyo band SODA! that magnifies the playground past-time of staring contests to absurd proportions. With a deadpan sense of seriousness and purpose the film delivers a playful ‘reflection’ on the essential experience of cinema by using minimalist aesthetics in the formal narrative structure of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and denouement. The longer that ‘nothing’ happens, the more the tension builds… Seamlessly blending the aesthetics of Andy Warhol, John Cage, Merv Griffin and Guy Debord with dramatic audio - and without resorting to heavy-handed polemics - in the end, the film calls into question the increasingly arbitrary distinction between spectators and the spectacle.