A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.
This work, filmed in Berlin, was created in homage to Elis, the model for Ōgai Mori's short story The Dancing Girl. Unter den Linden's townscape and the Berlin Zoo provide beautiful scenery.
"Hatsukoi" (The First Love, 1989) is a rarely-seen early short film from a Goth-lolita-oriented experimental film-maker, Mari Terashima. Ritualized action and repetitive elements might remind some viewers of Maya Deren's strategy.
This is the director's first diary film, drawn in collaboration with a diverse cast and manga artist Yumi Enomoto. It is a serious self-documentary work with a comedic touch. The music is by composer Kotaro Watabiki, the end song is by Haruka Doi, and the guitar is by Yumiko Yoshimoto. It won the...
The heroine is played by Amane Kazama, daughter of Visual Brains, and the film also features dolls by Dollhouse Noah and regular artists Anran, Ochazuke Nori, Hisashi Kishida, Shoichi Motohara of MONT★SUCHT, and Mame Yamada.
Featuring two schoolgirls and a woman who appears to be their mother, this surreal piece of girlish dreaming translates the world of Midori Ozaki and Leonora Carrington's works into the visual world.
An aged lady and his idiot manservant, secluded in a red chamber. The room has no clocks, and all day this ritual is held in the form of the grand dame's grumblings. Perhaps only a select few spectators may see the sublime in her. Suddenly, a portrait of a young woman disrupts her tedium, and the...
Engram is a three-part piece revolving around a few good old ideas such as photos inside of photos, movies inside of movies, photos inside of movies, movies inside of photos, and (even) a film director inside a TV set.
In 19th century Europe, photographs of the “grotesque” such as deformed bodies and corpses were popular and enthusiastically traded and collected. In contemporary Japan, a video about voluptuous little Sayomi who loves to collect Mickey Mouse paraphernalia—how do people look at her as she...
Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" goes goth in Mari Terashima's screen adaptation of the children's classic. Terashima brings together Goth Loli performance troupe Rose de Reficul et Guiggles, doll maker Mari Shimizu and magician and actor-dwarf Mame Yamada (Blue Spring, 9 Souls) to create a...
