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This film was produced for a briefing to the Ministry of Economic Affairs by the people of Houjin opposing China Petroleum Company’s fifth naphtha cracker plant. It brings together scenes of pollutions caused by the CPC over the previous year, interviews of the people affected, and footage of a series of protests, including that of the residents carrying coffins to the CPC facilities.
A slaughtered and dismembered pig and its severed head are displayed using a flicker effect. This is a study piece from the director's first year of undergraduate studies. The title comes from the British record label, ZTT Records.
“I held my finger between the projector and the screen and filmed while touching the projected object with the shadow of my finger. It's like playing with shadow puppets. The shadow that was originally imprinted on the film and the shadow of the finger or hand held out in front of the projector are both filmed shadows, so they are hard to distinguish. But you can't help but trying to distinguish them somehow. The inclusion of shadows that were not originally there adds a subtle flavor of fiction. I wanted to create a work that allows you to experience the textures - the texture of the water and the frog in the image, and the texture of nature made up of light, shadow and particles.” (Isao Kota)
The Return of Gods and Ancestors is the first locally made ethnographic film in Taiwan. The film, captured with a hand-cranked Bell & Howell 16 mm camera, documents the most magnificent five-year ceremony in Paiwan tribe. During the festival, the Paiwan people expect to receive blessings of the gods and ancestors by piercing rattan balls with extended bamboo poles; however, they also try to prevent any harm caused by evil spirits. The Paiwan five year ceremony is not only the reunion of the dead and the living, but a meeting of the old and the new.
Keita is thought by his friends to be a playboy, but in reality he is an extremely shy 18-year-old virgin. He flirts with any girl he meets, and he also gives love advice to his even more inexperienced best friend Ichirō. However, when it comes to the girl he truly likes, Miku, he cannot bring himself to say a single proper word to her. The most he can do is type her name repeatedly on his computer: “MIKU MIKU MIKU MIKU.”
Pink film by Yukio Kitazawa.
Master Kim is an immigrant who runs a Tae-kwon-do gym where he teaches American kids martial arts. Disguised as a businessman, Alex is secretly trafficking drugs. Federal agent Harvard Pak is on job when he is killed. Not knowing this, Alex kidnaps Hye-ran, Harvard Pak's daughter. But Master Kim sets out to rescue her.
This is the first animation I made for a university class when I was around 21 years old. I cut up pieces of black paper and pasted them one by one on a white wall, then filmed them. I traced a photo book by Eadweard Muybridge to create the material. It was made on 8mm film. The background music uses some of the soundtrack from the film "Ragtime." I created it with the sole focus of matching the music to the movement of the pictures and the scene changes. It is a memorable work for me.
Am is a singer in a music club and needs to be hostess with customers. A producer and a journalist are looking for new singers. They notice Am. Nowadays being capable is not enough, the journalist would like to request more from Am but she doesn't play such bad game. She made a first music album with the producer. The journalist writes a bad article on Am regarding her relationship with a married man in order to boost record sales. She has to deal with these bad articles by the journalist. Meanwhile, she falls in love with Win, a man who was coming to see her sing every evening.
On the Way Home follows a man on his way home on a rainy night, while cross-cutting the happenings after he returns home: doing laundry in a flooded bathroom, drinking tea, reading, and repeatedly opening and closing the door.
An uptight man and the woman he picks up. A salesman and a maniac who plans to kill indiscriminately. The film is a microcosm of "life" in which four strangers, who have nothing to do with each other in the first place, end up in one house, struggling with instinct, greed, madness and sheer luck. It's a theme that could easily be found in a TV drama. This is a black comedy in which you can enjoy the characters of the actors.
A stop-motion work in which illustrations were drawn on the surface of a three-dimensional object, such as a regular polyhedron, and filmed as they were replaced. My first three-dimensional animation. (Yuko Asano).
Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.
Kawase's debut film, shot after a fateful encounter with an 8mm film camera. The sturdy frame honestly reflects what the photographer sees and feels. The photographs were not of any particular interest, but rather of ordinary scenes and happenings; "everything was fresh and new, and I found walking around the town to be a joy".
8mm film made in 1984 by the Bunkyo University Film Research Club.
A woman has been married for 5 months but soon cheats on her husband at a love hotel.
Short animation by Tokumitsu Kifune & Sonoko Kifune.
16mm, 5'00
An experimental compilation of live performances and video art by Ranko Shinohara and Hijokaidan, featuring music by White Hospital. Bloody dolls, bondage, malpracticing nurses, Japanoise and more.
Hedgehog, Goat, and Rabbit teach Piggy the consequences of lazy selfishness after being targeted by a crippled wolf.
This film is one of the summer camp productions. In contrast to Kinjiki, it portrays a common, simple romance in a fresh and breezy way. The director struggled with editing, being inexperienced with romance films, and the project nearly ended up shelved. It was eventually completed thanks to the skillful editing of a third party who had no involvement in the shooting once again, Hiroaki Mōri.
An image film centered on the motif of a clown, where a present intertwined with a fragmented past blurred between imagination and reality intersects and unfolds. At its initial screening, the work was approximately five minutes long, but as the director repeatedly re-edited it in pursuit of his desired imagery, it gradually became shorter and shorter. Ultimately, it was not completed by the director himself, but was edited into its current form by a third party (Mr. Yamada), who had become fascinated by the work.
Song Xiebao from the Xinjiang Yili Television Station adopted an approach reminiscent of “the father of documentary,” Robert Flaherty, and his style of “romantic ethnography” in the production of Red Earth, which depicts the everyday life of three generations of a Uyghur family living beneath the Flaming Mountains in Xinjiang. Much like Nanook of the North (1922), the characters in the film are all staged portrayals, and the narrative is deliberately arranged, aiming to present a traditional way of life as understood by the filmmaker—one that reflects what they perceive to be the enduring customs of the local people over the centuries.
6 children sit in front of the classroom and constantly gossip. When one of them is absent for three days due to a cold, the rest remain quiet as they don't want to leave the other child out from day-to-day gossip.
16mm short by Masaru Noto.
Director Anthony Ramos joins his good friend, painter Frederick J. Brown, on a trip to Beijing for a retrospective of Brown’s work at the National Museum of China in Tiananmen Square in 1988, the first retrospective of an American artist in China.
She is a very ordinary girl of today. Her father is an ordinary salaryman, and she has grown up without any problems. But when she turns 18, her feelings are complicated. Things have been a bit weird lately. "I don't think I'm naturally compatible anymore. The film lyrically portrays the true feelings of a lonely, pretty girl who doesn't want to grow up yet and wants to be spoiled more by her parents. The tasteful cutting captures the girl's eroticism in a refreshing way.
‘New York Hot Springs’ (1984) is scenes of steam coming out of many streets of New York, a typical scene in winter, in repeated cycles of short shots. Though the scenes are shot at the same locations, the timings are differed slightly in every cycle.
Tao-Tao the baby rabbit has fun in the snow with their friends.
Pink film by Genji Nakamura.
This film portrays the utterly ordinary daily life of a male student. Despite being a short film, it is astonishingly boring, showcasing Kondo's distinctive style in full force.
To create dreams through video (VTR). Not to reproduce dreams, but to dream through video itself. For this purpose, calculation and planning were deliberately minimized, and the work was constructed while relying as much as possible on intuition and immediate sensation, so that the unconscious could be directly projected into the work.
In this work, the Lumière-like technique of photographic reproduction of reality is combined with the animation-like technique of photographing each frame while shifting it to make non-moving objects look like they are moving. However, if there is a slight difference from what we normally think of animation, it is that the person being animated is a human being who can move by himself.