The course was set to meet on the rooftop of Shinjuku Odakyu Department Store and penetrate Shinjuku's Kabukicho district. Hirano used Masahiro Sugiyama, the star of his film “The Thunderfish,” to shoot the film, and Hideto Ishii shows his commitment to light. Nanao also brought a saxophonist,...
The title means "key" in Hokkaido dialect. The man runs out of the room and attacks the children playing, but the microphone is snatched away by the girl. If the microphone is a symbol of the penis, is the act of putting the microphone in his mouth at the end a form of self-fellatio?
As part of the street observation work, I was working on collecting and arranging the number of the beast 666 in the city. Then, I realized that it was boring and decided to return to the drama for the first time in a while. Chepki, a woman who investigates the lot number where 6s are lined up, and...
The “Gamuze,” “Namara,” and ‘Dahan’ are frequently seen in this work, which were produced in collaboration with the "Katsuura Revolutionary University Video Course Practicum. These works were created in a video workshop called "Katsuura Revolutionary University Video Lecture...
The concept of "Rest In Eternalism" was to closely examine and photograph the things I encountered while traveling, so I thought about what would happen if I tried photographing one place thoroughly. I focused on the alleys I had discovered during the filming of my previous works.
As Godard said, a film is made up of "images and sound," but inevitably the images tend to be primary and the sound secondary. In order to break this and make the sound (in this case the words) the primary focus, I came up with the idea of using footage shot with the lens removed.
A 3-Part Series for the imaginary girl’s magazine Monthly Ophelia unveils the literary worlds of three female writers born in 1896. The Ophelia of legend who loses her life along the riverside is reborn and lives deep underwater. Reminisce about girlhood and lose your way in favourite books that...
The event was held at Shakujii Park in Nerima Ward, Tokyo. As a new twist, I scribbled graffiti and put red star stickers all over the route in advance. Some of them were completely ignored, but others were photographed by several participants. Kamioka brought a radio, Oguchi a Rika-chan doll, and...
The dialogueless journey of a carjacker, his young lover and the doll she created, in a world made of city ruins, blue dawns and red dusks. The film material was originally shot in 1998 on 8mm and later blown up to 16mm. Ever since, as the colour dyes faded and the years passed, the film hadn't...
Using a flat microphone, Yamazaki attempts to auscultate various places in the city. The sounds of manholes, of which he recorded many, sound like the pulsation of a living thing.
This is a feature-length work that combines the short stories "Night Palm Forest," "Red Bat Girl," "Night is Coming Soon," and "Kiri Rider" with "Mercury Heart" (starring Yu Arai) which was created as a summary. The music that had been used in the short stories up to that point ("Kiri Rider" was...
A middle-aged man, Lukani, is attracted to a woman holding a card for an offline social networking site meet-up in front of the station. As usual, he ends up going to a love hotel with the woman, but later, he tries to take a walk with her along the same route during the day...
Unidentified people appear around the protagonist, Mr. M. No matter how many times he wakes up, he cannot escape from his dream. In a speeding, deserted subway, Mr. M falls asleep again. This is Yamazaki's second work in his filmography. Reflecting on the fact that his first 8mm drama, "The...
