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Each person lives a different life, but the hand seemed to be a metaphor for that person's life. In other words, I thought that the life of the person would be determined by what he had. I pick up a fountain pen and stuff the film by hand. This tells my life. I made such a thought into a work.
Young students from across the country are invited to Beijing to perform a play written by future Nobel Laureate Gao Xingjian. The film documents their feverishly intense rehearsals, the phenomenal public reception of their performances, and their desperate attempts to sustain their euphoria and pursue artistic careers in Beijing.
The film tells the story of the early 1960s when a three-year-long natural disaster swept across China. Thousands of orphans were brought to the vast grasslands of Inner Mongolia, where they were assigned to live with local herders to get through the difficult times. Su Rina, through frugality, ensured the children could attend school. For the sake of the children, she rejected the sincere love of Kaba. One snowy night, the children were awakened by a faint sound. They ran out of their yurt and rescued a dying little white camel. From then on, the white camel grew up alongside the children.
An hour long best of compilation of Gamera from series director Noriaki Yuasa.
Kimika Yoshino walks around coastal environments and encounters dreamlike visions.
"We make memories in the journey and look for the evaporative emotions in the blurry memories. Facing the illusion of exotic language, GO-RAKU-EN deconstructs the estranged and complicated feelings of lovers and tries to reflect the essence of loneliness. Eventually, the reality of the sound restruct... Wu used images and sounds taken from the trip to create the experimental piece Go-raku-en (後樂園). "It is so simple and pure. ... It's just that when you don't care that much, it's purity," said Wu, who feels that any form of art is an expression of thinking and an extension of liberty and freedom."
The plain has a perfect starry sky at night. The sky is a message to existence. 16mm film by Kenji Onishi.
There is no dialogue or explanatory scenes at all, and the visuals unfold endlessly as information that appeals directly to the emotions rather than the feelings. The screen is divided into two halves and twice the usual amount of footage is shown, or the same image is shown one after another from different angles. As a result, the audience's brain comes to judge that the corpse is as beautiful as the body of a young woman who has just climbed out of a swimming pool. This film lets us experience a new relationship with images.
Snow Troupe's performance.
Panna and his friends get involved in a war between tribes in the jungle of Thailand, one tribe is made up of beautiful female warriors and the other, violent and brutish men, obviously, Panna and his friends fight alongside the women and it seems that this war is caused because of a statue that shoots laser beams.
Two young rubbish cleaners are working in a deserted high-rise before dawn. A middle-aged businessman walks past them, deliberately cracks open a bottle of alcohol and walks away. They stare at him with dark eyes, still feeling the way they did a month ago when they found the dead body of a woman. As one of them picks up a bottle of wine, the other finds a plastic bag in the pile of rubbish, which seems to contain a cat.
8mm film by Yosuke Okawado.
A fairy-tale telling the story of a wealthy, spoiled princess Katharine who got changed into "normal" girl by a Witch and now have to live among common village folks adapting to their modest lifestyle.
A documentary that focuses on early games from the arcade video game company, Capcom
Miwa is fired from her part-time job, sentenced to stay in Japan, and dumped by her boyfriend. She sets off on a trip to the Sea of Japan to find the truth, but her souvenirs are rather dull, including a rather rude female friend. This time she takes her younger brother Harumi with her to her home town. Together with Sawada, a classmate of Harumi's and a close friend of Miwa's, the three of them spend a summer holiday that takes them back to their childhood. However, when Miwa takes a picture of the place where her house used to be, when she plays pranks at the swimming pool, or when she catches a cold and falls asleep, she thinks about her father who suddenly disappeared one day.
Short movie by Jun Miyazaki.
Documentary on Zhou Enlai's various contributions to Chinese diplomacy, from 1949 to 1976, commissioned for the 100th anniversary of late Premier's birth. From Baidu: "China's peaceful foreign policy has enabled China to gradually break through the imperialist hegemonic political and diplomatic blockades of the United States and the Soviet Union, and successfully gain the status of a major diplomatic power, opening up great possibility for the New China." The film won multiple awards in China.
Jin-geol, a Hong Kong police detective in Thailand, helps Noh Ju-ma catch a pickpocket. Noh Ju-ma is the daughter of Noh Goh a shaman priestess. Noh Ju-ma falls instantly in love with Jin-geol and follows an evil deity's instructions to put potions in teas and give Jin-geol a doll used in exorcism to know exactly where and what he is doing all the time. Jin-geol, who through enchantment, has relations with Noh Ju-ma, soon regrets his actions and leaves Thailand. When Noh Ju-ma asks for help, the evil deity kills Jin-geol's wife Yi Hae who is pregnant with his baby. The evil deity soon turns into a monster and takes over Noh Ju-ma's body and starts killing people and tormenting Jin-geol. Noh Goh, who is aware of what has been going on bands together with the monk Chun Gong-myung to fight the evil deity. But their powers are no match for it at first until the spirits of Yi Hae and the unborn baby enter Noh Ju-ma's body and disunite Noh Ju-ma from the evil deity.
Pakistanis who work undocumented send money to their families in their home country, while being tortured by a ramen shop owner.
"My name is Aziz Shakhar. I had studied the law for two years at the Cairo university. Now I'm living in Amman, Jordany..." A footage which I picked up to cite was one of a "pre-text". In this film, I tried to make a metric film just like a 60-70's structural film. I assumed the film as a set of serialized footage on time. Systematic re-editing made us new meanings and images itself.
A woman is rubbing herself against a white wall, making the typical noises of having sex from the back, and Onishi takes his time to open the framing and then showing them in explicit positions. You don’t see the penetration but watch the rhythm of two bodies, listening to it, too. The framing by windows will allow you some rest. The man is putting on his clothes and closing the door while the woman is looking out oft he window. Onishi’s typical black inserts again, and we watch the same couple on the toilet, where he is putting her hands into hand-cuffs. After that he is showering her carefully, and she remains in hand-cuffs while they are having sex again under the shower. He is using his revolver then to free her from these metal things. And the toilet is a calm place when she comes back after strangling a young man on the street.
Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.
A young artist loses the love of his life after only a month of living together. He returns to his studio, the place of his memories of his beautiful girlfriend, who used to be a model, but the loss is so great that even when he is eating or sleeping, he has realistic illusions, as if her death was his mistake. Then one day, as if obsessed by something, he begins to make a statue of her in clay. On the night he finishes the statue, the moonlight shining into his studio breathes life into the lump of clay. And when he wakes up, he meets his beloved again...
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.
"In the early afternoon, a mother holding her child stands still in the park of a housing project. The kind of sight that is a symbol of beauty and love. Be as that may be, they have no face. The camera is aimed persistently at the spot from which they have vanished as if to find something. A work that began out of the search to understand the relation between the family and the self." - Takashi Ito
This film is an experiment on editing, deconstructing and reconstructing, a game of collision between frames. As a narrative body disintegrates, it gradually becomes possible for viewers to pay attention to the phenomena of intra-frame intervals.
In 1999, the Indigenous Culture Club at the National Taiwan University held a series of annual ceremony activities as a tribute to traditional indigenous rituals. Unfamiliar with their native languages and cultures, however, the student organizers found themselves in an awkward position that brought them into conflict with the school administration. Where would they find the “salt”, an in-depth understanding of their cultural identities and backgrounds?
In Flow, completed in 1991, Wenyi Hou, the Chinese woman migrant artist being interviewed, struggles with the impossibility of identity formation through speech and performs instead a documentary scene that has obviously been rehearsed in order to highlight the unhumanness of being human. She asks whether it is possible that we all originated from and could be reducible to grape, in the farm of bunches, connecting and consumable, yet all brilliant and different in their own contexts, or in her words, “in another kind of time.”
“Fatherless” is a genuinely eerie docu about a 22-year-old bisexual who goes in search of the father who abandoned him when he was a child. Though the pic was billed at 90 minutes, its actual length was considerably shorter, which may account for some unexplained gaps in recounting the disturbing history of Masaya Muraishi.
When the young King Danjong accedes to the throne, the Court is in chaos. In this moment, Han Myeong-Hoe, who feels strongly the absurdity of the society, appears. He cherishes an ambition with the help of his friend Kwon Rang. The plot of Han Myeong-Hoe kills Kim Jong-Seo and Hwang Bo-In, who grope for the regency of the King Anpyeong. After that, his plot kills the scholars of Jibhyeonjeon, who plan for comeback of Danjong, as well. Han Myeong-Hoe obtains a high government position twice in the chaos of the death of the King Keumseong and the exile of the King Danjong.
"The advantage of a diary is meaninglessness. That is the only inclination and the rule of a diary." The being is to be perceived.
Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm).
Single-8 film by Tachibana Kaoru
A shocking semi-documentary drama that delves into the true nature of kogyaru. Based on a survey that collected the voices of 100 current high school girls, it depicts in ultra-realistic detail the reality of high school girl auctions, where middle-aged men bid on young girls, and the true nature of these girls.
Hurricane Live 2033: More Music of the Bubblegum Crisis spotlights the music that helped to make 80's series The Bubblegum Crisis the popular early piece of anime that its become. The hard rock songs of Priss and the Replicants are played amidst a video montage of the series' most exciting action sequences, and rarely seen live footage from the musicians themselves is also included.
Our dreams will come true if we believe in them. This original film is basically about how easily we can fly, as told by a young girl in an Osaka dialect.
Documentary film produced by CCTV and directed by Hao Yuejun.
"This Is a Camera Which Shoots This" and "As I See You You See Me" are both set up facing two cameras and monitors and the performer walks between them while voicing the sentence of the title. Here the words "This" and "You" have the same form in the nominative and the objective cases, switching the roles of not only the signifier (word) but also the signified (object).
Based on a well known children's book by Takeda Miho, the film follows a school bully Ochiai-kun and a shy girl Okada Miho-chan in their normal school days.
Part 7 of Koike Teruo’s Ecosystem series. 8mm
Experimental short by Visual Brains.
A girl and a boy, a chance encounter with the camera. She invites the photographer to her room. Once inside, the woman takes off her clothers and provokes the man. An unblemished composition of umblemished eroticism. Kenji Onishi's entry in the "Roji no ko" series.
Presented in a bootleg-ish sonic quality and heavily edited (crazy-ass video effects all around), いつつのバラの幻想 has a similar vibe to Silver~Rose #1 Fin, although the band had already became a quintet by this time. First three songs are presented entirely live. "GAMER DOLL" and "TIME INSIDE~時間の中へ~" are your typical vkei live PV. No ending credits.
Documentary about the landmark the OCCUR case
Rome 1498. The Borgia family is prosperous due to the great power of Pope Alessandro VI, who is both patriarch of the Borgia family and the the head of the Church. Cesare, the first son, decides to follow his ambition and relinquish his position of Cardinal, second only in power to the Pope. This bold choice is one which is to change his life.
An image video starring Fumie Hosokawa.
It was on the day of her reunion with Sachiko, a classmate from her high school days, that Miki began to feel a presence. That night, Sachiko took out a snapshot.