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Just Pretended to Hear

Sachi is an introverted little girl. Her mother dies unexpectedly and although she doesn’t shed a tear, her pain is nonetheless deep and keen. Helpless, Sachi’s father dons his starched shirt and perfect tie and tries his best pick up his work-a-day routine once more. Sachi’s only comfort is a necklace with a ring that belonged to her mother. This keepsake helps Sachi to believe that her mother is always near, protecting her. Bereft, lonely and consumed by grief, her father descends at home into a kind of dementia. And so Sachi will have to manage by herself somehow.

Just Pretended to Hear

NR 2012
Space Noise

[Space Noise] is a performance in which the double 25 FPS award winner confronts high-resolution video images and 16mm live projection. A duel between the all-dominant immaculate digital and the irregular organic material dissolves in multiple layers of chaos. Enormous quantities of light movements from film loops capture the screen in thousands of pixels of digital projection and create new images in constant change and enhancement. The sound accompanying them live only repeats and spreads the noise, developing images by whirling speed. Noise, located on the tape as a constituent part of the film, becomes the aim of Makino’s quest – Noise-Image. This quest for a new film experience intensifies with additional effects – a smoke curtain reveals the fullness of the light beams’ rainbow spectrum, while a neutral single-eye ND filter creates a three-dimensional illusion.

Space Noise

NR 2015
Tidy Up

Today is a very special day for a young Japanese man, Akira, as the opportunity he's been waiting for since his childhood has finally arrived. He can clear up the house that his deceased mother turned into a hoarder's paradise. With the professional junk removers he hired and a friend to record every single step on a video camera, Akira seems to have everything taken care of. However, as they go into the house they encountered the expected huge piles of garbage, and something unexpected. It is his elder sister Moe, who's willingly moved to back in the house to carry on the legacy of hoarding. Will he be able to persuade his sister to put an end to their family saga?

Tidy Up

NR 2011
Sunrise Sunset

Film in the second group of works from the hands-on filmmaking academy Cinema Impact, produced by director Yamamoto Masashi with the participation of 13 up-and-coming directors. An ensemble comedy that adapts a theatre piece performed in 1997 by director Hashiguchi Ryosuke, whose renowned films include All Around Us and Hush!. An aspiring filmmaker visits a film production company the day before a shoot is scheduled to begin. The tangle of participants includes a stylist, a producer angling to raise cash, and an assistant director scrambling to fulfil crazy demands.

Sunrise Sunset

NR 2013
The Most Beautiful Village in the World

On April 25, 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake occurred in Nepal. The earthquake caused 3 million people to be affected and over 9000 people died. Japanese photographer Ishikawa Fan flew to Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal at the first time, and came to the dangerous zone located in the the Himalayas near the epicenter. In that deserted area, the breathtaking beauty of Laprak village has turned into ruins. The villagers who suffered from the face to face disaster persevered in their survival, bidding farewell to the deceased and moving forward towards a confused future. In this process, there is a collision between government and faith. Is it for survival? Or are we staying with ancient gods to overcome difficulties together?

The Most Beautiful Village in the World

NR 2017
Perfume x TECHNOLOGY Presents: REFRAME

A live stage at the NHK Hall where the performance created by Perfume was reconstructed from a new perspective. Directed and choreographed by MIKIKO. Interaction design is rhizomatics. The creators of the Rio Olympic and Paralympic Handover Ceremony created Perfume and a special stage. This stage was held by NHK as part of the "This is NIPPON Premium Theater" event, which aims to stimulate not only sports but also culture in preparation for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics

Perfume x TECHNOLOGY Presents: REFRAME

NR 2018