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A work I made when I was attending the film department of the University of Paris 8. At the time, I was living in a downtown area in the northwest of Paris, close to the Place de la Bastille, which was associated with the French Revolution. Building construction sites were scattered around the area due to redevelopment. The shooting location was a building with only walls and floors, whether it was under construction or being demolished. I decided on the composition so that the wall and floor exactly intersect in the center of the screen. In order to capture 1/4 of the screen, 3/4 of the screen must be covered with a mask. Then, while rewinding the film, I took four shots at different frame speeds. One cut, one scene, a fixed screen with no camera work. The same man is walking in each part of the continuous screen, which is divided into four parts. The movement of the same man, who was just walking at the same speed, has four different speeds on the screen.

Based on an ancient proverb (which one could translate into ‘it’s dogged as does it’), this film tells about a fisherman who is disturbed by two pelicans and who disguises himself as a scarecrow to catch the two birds.

Experimental film about the schizoid man by using double exposure. The title includes a double meaning, that is "now here" being here – and "nowhere" to not be anywhere. In this lyrical work, Jun Kurosawa analyzed himself schizophrenically.

16mm, 5'00

16mm student film by Masahiro Kasai.

Different stories at different time periods, all about revenges and killings.

Horror manga artist Kazuo Umezz spends time with ten young women on an island.

"Heavenly Warrior Fantasy Legend" is a promotional video produced and released in the late 1980s at the Takeshima Fantasy Museum in Gamagori City, Aichi Prefecture, to commemorate the museum's 30th anniversary. It is believed to be a work from the late 1980s to the early 1990s, but the exact production year is unknown, although there are records indicating it was sold at the museum in 1987. Set in Gamagori City, the story features a heavenly warrior, played by Shinobu Sakagami, struggling in the human world. It also served as a promotional video for the Takeshima Fantasy Museum, a tourist attraction at the time. Production Background: Produced by the former management of the Fantasy Museum amidst the economic downturn following the collapse of the bubble economy, it was created to promote the museum's 30th anniversary.

The first Music Video work of Eiki Takahashi before he became a music video filmmaker and making documentaries about music idol groups.

An animation short about a sleepy dinosaur called SLEEPY.

About the miserable reality of farmers. Directors are arrested for illegal screening. One of the legendary films that was oppressed by the age of repression.

The black fish is violent, devouring fish and shrimps, and grabbing bait hooks with the tortoises, vying to cook in the cauldron.

In front of a train station in the suburbs, a man chopping dried fish, chicken bones, and logs. When the man strikes with his machete, the entire scene begins to rotate. As if it had been put through a juicer, it was broken down into small pieces and eventually put into the glass the girl was holding.

A woman's odd behavior makes everyone around her wonder if she's possessed or a ghost. Her husband is driven into the arms of a mistress and her best friend seeks guidance from a spirit doctor until she's found dead. The friend's boyfriend then decides to get the bottom of things.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

A dissected pig's head. As you approach, you can see the pig's face reflected in the girl's eyes, and this is repeated over and over again. This work incorporates the techniques of experimental film, which were mainstream at the time. It was the undergraduate graduation project.

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

In a quiet night, a sleepy writer battles against sleepiness and writer’s block.

Early documentary by Kang Jianning. Originally shot in 1987 for a planned series but re-edited into a short film and aired on Ningxia TV in 1992.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

The story takes place among a group of toys: the naughty Yuanyuan lost the shuttlecocks of two girls. In order to compensate for the shuttlecocks, he found chicken feathers. With the help of the robot, he caught a rooster, plucked the feathers and gave them to the little girls as compensation, but the two girls lost their shuttlecocks. The girl thought she shouldn't take the feathers, so she gave them back to the rooster.

Steps with shadows. An arm shadow in the landscape - concrete/grass/flowers. Flicker and a finger morphs into abstraction. A real hand appears above the animation, a zoom - drawings/hands/feet.

A bloody gangland war breaks out when a young drug lord, West, decides to take out the long reigning underworld kingpin Chang and double cross him on a large shipment of drugs. A special agent who has infiltrated West's organisation must battle both sides when the conflict spirals out of control.

Erotic drama released by Nikkatsu for home video.

Comedy about an adult variety show.

Young lady Lam Duan (จุติมา ดาวจรัส) wants to marry with พี่ Tien (Kowit Wattanakul) but he is poor, so her parents push her towards another wedding with Leut. Leut (Tuanton Kammeesri) fights with Tien as he asked for her hand so he cannot bear that she keeps seeing Tien. A one to one fighting happens and Tien defeats Leut. Leut has to cancel his wedding with Lam Duan. A few months later, while Lam Duan is pregnant, Leut and his ruffians see her buying groceries. They kidnap her and rape her. Ashamed, she hangs herself (ผูกคอตาย) in front of a Takhian tree. Lam Duan is dead but her spirit still wants to stay with Tien.

1989 short film

An OVA supercut of Eien no Once More, Long Goodbye, and Curtain Call

Pink film from Toei.

Seiko Matsuda's first starring role in a TV drama, adapted from the novel Father by Shusaku Endo. As well as the title, the film attracts great attention for Seiko's bewitching transformation from a young girl to an adult! The heroine, who lives for her job as a sports club instructor, falls in love with a businessman with a wife and child. But her father wants his daughter to have an ordinary but happy marriage and a peaceful family... This drama explores the conflict between a daughter who wants to keep her love alive and her father, as well as the nature of love. Hiroshi Katsuno plays Seiko's adulterous partner, and Keiki Kobayashi plays Kikuji, the father who wishes for ordinary happiness as a woman.

Pinku distributed by ENK Promotion.

8mm work directed by Norihiko Morinaga.

38 years after the Pacific War, 84 victims of a mass suicide ordered by the Japanese military were uncovered in a cave in Yomitan village. This film contains the testimonies of some of the survivors, the story of a sculptor leading bereaved family members in creating a statue of peace, and the resistance of a group of girls against the raising of the Japanese flag at the high school graduation ceremony.

A mad doctor uses a fake taxi driver to kidnap victims and then removes their eyes in hopes of perfecting an eye transplant that will allow his blind wife to see again. One of the doctor's servants ends up getting possessed by not one, but several of the victims.

Short film that is part of a series of 6 films that Nobuhiro Kawanaka made between 1987 and 1992.

Horror Sigma Project, Humans Kidnapped by Aliens!! It's no longer a matter of not being there! !! World premiere! !! Super clear UFO live-action video and photos! !! Finally get the national top secret document!! A living ET in the US base! Real!

Short film made using a pinhole camera

Treasure hunters are after a special diamond that can only be found in a mystic cat spirit's eyes. They get their hands on it but misfortune and death quickly befall all of those involved and will continue to do so to their descendants unless the jewel is returned to where it belongs. This is a remake a 1972 film. A later TV adaptation was released in 1999.

A collection of flip books, created in collaboration with a group of students at a workshop at the Single Frame Animation Centre.

A female laborer in the Winter Republic crosses a river. She sings Kongmudohaga. An experimental montage connects the front and back of history.

It shows the importance of Buddhist abbots in Thai society. A young man, without parents and who has always lived in temples ("DEK WAT" - the Temple Boy), is in love with a young woman. Her parents don't want a poor groom. Hopefully the abbot might help?

The author's inner world is revealed through her own narration, and the faceless "you inside" repeatedly crosses a crosswalk. The image leaves the screen and is projected everywhere—on the toilet, on the author's body, and on the "you of today."

Having inaugurated after massacring people in Gwangju, the fifth republic of South Korean government plans a large-scale state-organizing festival called ‘National Wind 81’ as part of its obscurantist policy. The members of a student film coterie called Yalasheng of Seoul National University go and shoot the festival holding an 8mm camera and critically capture the scenes.

8mm work from the 6th Pia Film Festival.