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Videotable is a conceptual piece centring on a table, which is a recurring theme and motif in YUNG’s theatre works. A series of dialectical questions asking where ‘the centre’ is, whether it should turn left or right, whether you are faithful to art….loosely points towards power structures both in the political world and the art world.
The story of a group of university friends who rented a house nearby. with a cute girl student house When a friend falls in love with the girl next door, it's a burden for friends to help each other out in order for a friend to break through the brutal father's level. Thus begins the first part of the deep friendship of loner friends. Meng Duang Glasses Man A group of best friends renting a house to have fun as a bachelor, with an old friend, Manat, to join them. One day, Manat becomes infatuated with Pan, the girl next door, but is intercepted by her father. So he must prove himself in order to break through his father's level to find the brutal one.
This early Chinese ethnographic film documents festivals of the Yiche people of the Hani ethnic group -- their folklore and cultural phenomena, such as reproductive worship dance; their collective socializing on festival nights and marriage customs; and the "haruzhe," which has both characteristics of blood sacrifice and prayer, a ritual to offering for a good harvest. The directorial debut of documentarian Hao Yuejun, the film uses the language of documentary but with a specifically ethnographic focus on history and customs, and is recognized as an important historical work in its own right for 'restarting' ethnographic filmmaking after the end of the Cultural Revolution; in fact, this particular method of had never been used in China before.
1988 feature documentary on the history, culture and people of Tibet.
Documentary about China's first antarctic expedition in 1984.
Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.
Student film from Eiki Takahashi. Video art work about American writer William Burroughs. Affected by the cut-up / fold-in method, which involves chopping up existing texts to expose potentially hidden malicious intent in the texts. Using the text and narrative of Burroughs, he tried to reconstruct the language space of Burroughs by using 8mm video, photographs, and re-shooting them.
Sorako, who wears a Seiko-chan haircut and is bullied, meets Namao, an orphan, and the two begin a new life together, growing vegetables. However, Namao sets off on a journey to search for his mother, and Sorako follows after him carrying a magical tomato given to her by Nina, the fairy of vegetables...
Lovers Journey
Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.
Experience time-lapse photography.
That Photograph is an 8mm experimental film made from an animated still. From the Czech photographer, Josef Koudelka’s photography book, KAO chose a photo of his family beholding a body and made copies of it in a myriad of ways. The photo and the camera are stationary; however, the relationship formed between them through production is in motion.
The filmic version of a city in which all surface beauty has rotted away. In order to find images of death like landscapes of the city from which people have vanished, and buildings from which the decorations have been stripped away and the inner organs exposed, I walked all over Tokyo taking photographs, then animated them. (T.I.)
Yukari, a high school, girl is asked by a woman at her part-time job to stay at her mansion. Her boyfriend soon makes a visit...
1. Opening 2. Loudness 3. Dark Desire 4. Shadows of War 5. Bass Solo 6. One Thousand Eyes 7. Face to Face 8. Drum Solo 9. Let It Go 10. Ares Lament 11. Guitar Solo 12. Crazy Nights 13. Speed 14. Ending
Short film by Sho Fujiwara, 1988.
Short film by Keiichi Minegishi
An animated string held between two youths standing in various locations. The sound negative of this work has unfortunately been lost, and so it is now presented silently.
This formal study is based on a series of postcards of pre-war Tokyo. The artist fuses these images of the past with the same scenes that appear today in an evocative and lyrical way.
BDSM erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.
Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.
Early TV documentary short film by director Duan Jinchuan about traditional Tibetan opera performances.
Snares and worms live inside a pinhole camera. The film follows their narrative as they dream about everything. The camera, which has no lens, greedily shakes its head and tries to collect all the light in the world. Suna is not satisfied with the light that comes through the pinhole, but wants to turn his own eyes into a pinhole, and wants a landscape that is directly burned into his brain.
Short 8mm film by Kawamura Mitsuhiko made in the third year of university. A twenty year old broken heart, Showa romance.
This 1982 image was based on the Italian comic book "Altri Mondi" by Andrea Romoli. This is a six-minute pilot for the series "Spaceship Sagittarius".
No one knows who this man is. Is he trying to fulfill a promise made to a friend? Is he seeking revenge? Has he been hired to kill for money? Whatever his purpose may be, he presses forward without hesitation, passing through a dense, overgrown forest toward a remote frontier town. But what awaits him at the end of his journey…? This original film clip was inspired by Stan Campbell’s classic song “YEARS GO BY.” Its editing is seamlessly synchronized with the rhythm of the music, creating a captivating viewing experience. Brimming with rugged charm and energy, it is a work full of wild appeal.
One egg gives birth to two chicks, one black and one white. The two chicks are cultivated into gladiatorial killers.
On the sand dunes at dusk, the hot and soothing sand is misty, and he abandons his father's morals for an unforgivable "love." Two handsome half-brothers fall in love...a tragic story.
1988 short film
Enraged by the absurdity and oppression of the times yet unable to find a way to change reality, “I,” a university student, gradually realize my own growing sense of helplessness. As the comrades who once wrestled with how to transform the world alongside me are arrested by the police or drafted into the military, “I” find myself standing at a crossroads.
In his darkened apartment the poet, translator, and lyricist discusses his work and his "art of being alone". In the words of Tanikawa: "If there is love, there is nothing more to say...".
Ueda, Koike and Keiko are in their fourth year at university. The time limit on their paradise of university is drawing to a close, and they are all feeling impatient in their own ways. Keiko is unable to find a job. Ueda is unsure of Keiko's feelings. Koike is torn between her dream of becoming a novelist and the reality of finding a job. The summer is passing. As if to hold on to their time in paradise, they enjoy a late night of fireworks. In his dreams, Koike sees a strange family picture. The image of the three of them sitting around a make-shift table on a riverbank overgrown with summer grass softly and unobtrusively conveys to the viewer their anxiety about their ambiguous future. The film's sincere image of adolescence is heartbreaking.
A compilation of violent and graphic video and news footage.
1989 short film.
Fragments of images emerge from the empty space, and before you know it, a heavy wall surface is built. If you break through it, a flood of light will overflow.
An omnibus made up of three stories featuring the characters "Man A and Man B", "Woman A and Woman B" and "Man A and Woman A". What happens when two people with completely different personalities are brought together? Something seems to happen, but in the end nothing happens. This film looks at the subtle twists and turns of communication between people from a pure perspective. The characters of the actors are hard to ignore.
Writes Imai, "As a photographer during the 1970s, my interest in capturing time led me to explore the video medium. After utilizing video in two or three works, I saw a similarity between videotape and an ancient scroll, in that they both capture a story of our time. I started using physical videotape as a metaphorical representation of time, rolling out the magnetic tape from right to left, representing a narrative from beginning to end."
Megumi goes shopping in Harajuku. She wants to have a wonderful love. There's someone she's interested in, and before she knows it, she's next to him. She met him again when she was in a cafe...
The super-powered trio of Sky, Earth, and Typhoon attempt to rescue Princess Lanka from the King of Evil with the help of young Ae-ri.
This is the opening animation of URACON III.
A landscape that has been filmed once is projected onto a screen and then filmed again. The re-shot screen changes with the sound of quick beats. An unremarkable local landscape. Roads stretching through rice paddies, clusters of telephone poles, wooden houses with large eaves. These landscapes are transformed into a blur of memory for the purpose of reshooting. The electrically produced noise-like acoustics and the sound of beating quislings beat the landscape out of the memory circuits of the brain. For a moment, a girl stands in front of a screen of landscape, and the landscape rotates around her. The whole work is more than an idea, including the composition in which the synthesis of a kind of screen process brings about change.
My high school life is the worst, but I wanted to express that feeling while I'm the worst," says the director, and his feelings are conveyed through direct images. In his room, the protagonist looks at an album while wearing an eye patch for some reason. The sound of sniffling throughout the film. A classroom scene is repeated like a formula. In contrast to the quiet flow of the first half of the film, the second half is filled with the power of visual sadism and a throbbing urge for violence, such as the constant beating of a boy on a motorbike.
