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In four minutes, the delicate and lyrical sensibility of a female filmmaker permeates the viewer's mind in this short film made up of only four shots. On a lightly rainy spring day, the filmmaker arrives at the beach with her camera, and asks two friends to be her subjects, lying on their stomachs on the rain-soaked ground, she slowly zooms in on them as they walk down the street from a low angle. The cut brings back the feeling of the cold ground, familiar to anyone who has ever shot 8mm, and before you know it you find yourself looking through the viewfinder with the artist. A visual diary was casually written with awkward and confident sketches of the landscape and shy narration.

Taiwan's Martial Law provisions included laws clearly suppressing assembly, demonstrations, and forming of organizations. Nonetheless, one afternoon on a holiday in 1983, five youths appeared on Ximending Street dressed in white khaki pants and wearing cotton bags over their heads. A document of dissident action during this period.

16mm. Won Bluedents International Film Festival Director Award

Shot on video in 1989, is a reflection on film of the ideas he captured in a series of photos towards the end of his career. Cherry blossoms are here depicted against the Sun, thus losing all the color and beauty they are usually associated with, and mutating instead into black shapeless figure of almost phantasmatic solitude. (Matteo Boscarol)

Tracking the past life of a combat police.

Documentary short on the military training for the 1989 freshmen of Beijing Broadcasting College.

Taiwanese horror movie from 1987.

8mm work from the 5th Pia Film Festival.

A sunny day with little sister, 8mm unfinished film by Toshihiko Omote.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Seok-bul goes to the mountains and marries the daughter of his father's friend. His father-in-law has a long lost son who is engaged in drug-smuggling and who is out to kill his father.

Experimental short by Visual Brains.

Thai action film starring Sorapong Chatree. The Thai title is "มือปราบ 2 แผ่นดิน", not to be confused with "มือปราบสองแผ่นดิน", which is another film altogether. They are often mistaken for one another, but this film uses the numeral "2", rather than "two".

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

A naked woman in the water, two women caressing each other in a pool without water, a woman in a cage, four half-naked women standing in a room. The fragmentary images of the various women are chained together in a discontinuous manner, and as a whole, a dry eroticism with ambiguous meaning drifts from the screen. The laughter, murmurs, and screams of the women overlap to form a unique internal world that the artist, a woman, has captured with her physiological sensibility. A film that attempts to confirm the uncertainty of our existence.

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

During the Bon holiday, Rika is planning to return to Sado Island when she receives a summer greeting postcard from her high school friend Junko. The message invites her to come back, as all their old classmates will be gathering for the first time in a long while. Upon returning home, Rika is met at the port by Kōno, a former classmate she has not seen since graduation. As they reminisce about the past, their conversation flows easily. However, when Rika asks about the upcoming reunion, Kōno strangely avoids giving a clear answer.

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

An infinite horizon line and the image of continuous waves... Experimentation with the vertical displacement of the image of a 35 mm film. 35mm film has four perforations per image. If the perforations are offset from the projector window, the image is split in two on the screen: for example, in a face image, the eyes are at the bottom and the mouth is at the top; The image has two displaced parts. To avoid this mistake, this multi-image movie uses collage. The filmmaker assembles an image by perforation (the normal technique is an image by 4 perforations). Therefore, there is never a vertical shift in the projected image.

Live concert recorded in 1988.

A bold adaptation of Koharu Kisaragi's play of the same name. Four girls in a high school drama club try to put on their first play, "DOLL", but it doesn't go well because they have many differences. This 102-minute film follows the emotional trajectory of the girls as they hurt each other, come to believe that no one needs them, and end up committing suicide. The truth of these four people, who tried to live pure and beautiful lives, is heartbreaking.

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

Original footage of a human dissection is inserted into electronic noise. The video blends the Psychic TV song "Je T'aime," a cover of the duet "Je t'aime moi non plus" by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, whispering words of love. Produced for the undergraduate program.

A short film made from the documentation of the Zuni Icosahedron performance October/Decameron (1988), with music composed by the pop group Tat Ming Pair. The title of the song, Forbidden Colours 禁色, alludes to homosexuality and other socially taboo relationships. The artist uses the limited video equipment available to them (video-8 camera, television and Betamax player), to experiment with the video signal.

Adapted from a novel by Edmond Wilson, the story follows two men, a horde of teals, and hundreds of snapping turtles as they collide in an absurd world.

This work began when the filmmaker noticed buds sprouting on a dead branch. He realized that "the dry mountain is actually covered with buds". The story revolves around the way the number of objects appears. Three young women perform in order to create the atmosphere of feeling life in the breath of plants.

8mm maiden film by Jun Kitamikado, 1987. A film that was recorded in a very natural way without hesitation.

A stop motion animation using several phenakistoscopes of a polyhedron and other materials. Five “Egg birds” appears in the artificial garden.

Hiroshi Yamazaki, 16mm, 10'00.

As the filmmaker metaphorically represents the “romanticism as love towards mineral,” they are gathered through the act of shooting (the physical movements on camera) and they are a collection of images being put in the film; these meanings are to be interpreted by the audience.

The view of an amusement park that's shot by a fixed camera changes into an uncanny one by painting directly onto celluloid and strange sounds. It is an attempt to approach the inner world through the common view by private eye of the author himself.

For a long time the KMT government has held a monopoly over Taiwan’s TV channels, using the lack of channel bandwidth as an excuse for its stranglehold. During the build-up to the elections at the end of 1989, Green Team set up a satellite transmission channel on its own, poking a hole in the KMT’s argument.

This is an animated work created using sand. We built our own multi-plane shooting table and adjusted the transmitted and reflected light using a lighting controller. This was done to blend the differences in the texture of the sand expressed by the lighting. Additionally, we utilized the sand's unpredictable nature - how it disappears without notice and reappears when touched - to create accidental images by vibrating the sand around the platform where it was placed. These images included motifs of human conversation, living creatures, life, the afterlife, and the universe. We moved these images through metamorphosis, like a game of word association.

Educational film on various aspects about anorectal disorders.

16mm experimental film by Masanobu Nakamura.

Even if you watch it all day long, the human eye cannot see the movement of the clouds. In that sense, it can be said that interval shooting in movies has expanded human vision itself. Just as the invention of photography captures momentary movement, cinema presents a world that seems to compress real time. Interval shooting is normally used only in science films and the like. In this work, such changes were captured at intervals of a few seconds, rather than frame-by-frame. Without a timer or anything, I set the camera on a tripod in my room, sat down on a chair beside me, and pressed the release bit by bit, entirely manually from before dawn until the sun went down.

Official VHS recording of G.I.S.M.'s live performance at Nakano public hall, May 30th 1985.

An attempt to confuse the relationship between the film's material surface and the images recorded on it. As a man continues to walk in circle, where three scratches are made on the film. Xenogenese is a biological term meaning heterogenesis.

A flash of light splits the darkness, revealing a mysterious image. The images are rapidly replaced with sharp noise that combines wave-like repetitiveness and explosiveness, and the flicker effect that it brings makes the viewer away from reality.

Animated children's story about a nonconformist but brave frog. Bunna wants to challenge his community's status quo by learning about the world outside.

LaserDisc released in 1984 that features cute kittens and puppies.

It’s the story of a doctor and his obnoxiously shrill wife who go deep into the jungle "to help the less fortunate." As it turns out, their new neighbors are brother and sister lycanthropies.

Women are trained in BDSM...