Stom Sogo was a brilliant media artist who left his native Japan for America while still in high school. He attended college in NYC and became a central figure in the mid-1990s experimental film community before returning home. GUIDED BY VOICES, a lyrically intense stroboscopic shock to the system, is quite possibly his masterwork. Featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, Sogo re-edited this piece a number of times before his untimely death at the age of 37 at his apartment in Kyoto. (http://2014.riverrunfilm.com/films/shorts-anthology-film-archives)