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A woman is abandoned by a man, gets hurt, and... In the end, a woman is abandoned by a man, she is hurt, and...

"Goze" drawn by painter Shinichi Saito. One of the few remaining blind women in the snowy Niigata region, a traveling entertainer who played the shamisen and sang, visited villages and left a record of living on the mercy of others.

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.

As the long-awaited summer holidays begin, Candy and her friends go hiking in the mountains. However, a heavy rainstorm interrupts their leisure, making them hide in the forest. After the rain has stopped, the friends are ready to proceed, but Candy gets herself into some serious trouble when she encounters a cute bear cub.

Visually, each section of the film is composed of 10-second spans of clear and dark leader, arranged in a progressive fashion so that at first there is more and more light and less darkness, then vice versa.

Writes Kawanaka, "Video is a medium of image as well as sound. Walking on a gravel road with a camera, the crunch sound is captured in real time. Such [an] observation seems obvious, but as a filmmaker, the ability to record sound in real time was very new to me. Referencing a can-kicking game I played as a child, I followed the rolling can and recorded the resonant sounds of the can hitting the ground."

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

A sunset scene with a fragment of the sun about to disappear at the edge of a mountain, children conveying a message against the background of a faintly coloured rainbow in the centre of the sky. The camera's point of view, which seems to be gazing at the scene, oscillates with a certain sense of rhythm, successfully expressing the flow of the filmmaker's mind.

A film adaptation of Kazuo Umezu's manga with mysterious images that express time. In the short time of only 4 minutes, the original flavour of the original work and the artist's unique perspective are skillfully intertwined and condensed, and the original images that make us feel the passage of time are a sight to behold.

When Japan is flooded by Western civilization... or the invader invaded.

The silence capturing all the surroundings of Mt. Buko. Documentary directed by Minoru Shinojima 1979, 8mm.

Experimental docufiction concerns itself with the future of the Ryuku islands, as the United States turns control over to Japan in the late 1970s.

Pink film directed by Kan Mukai.

Documentary and concert film of sorts showing the Tokyo rock music scene in 1978, just as punk began to emerge. Featuring performances from bands Friction, Lizard, S-Ken, Suicide, SS, Pain, Mirrors, Mr. Kite, Speed and 8 1/2. The Stanglers also make an appearance.

16mm to digital, 6'00

Experimental short by Nobuhiro Aihara.

A multi-media stop-motion picture by director, Minoru Kujirai, featuring clay dinosaurs.

An experimental short.

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.

Michio Okabe, considered an icon of 1960s Japanese underground cinema, pursued the principle of subjective cinema by combining images that interested him cinematically and roles that he wanted to play himself. In MEMOIR the artist’s fantasies of the late 1970s are featured in a chaotic chain of images. (Go Hirasawa)

Pink film directed by Seiji Izumi

A special performance for Laforet, the large department store/museum in Harajuku.

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

This film documents actions performed for World Uprising by Ikuo Shukusawa, Sanzō Tanaka, and Shigeru Hanagata, who collectively worked as Shikata Kōbō (Death Type Workshop). Camera person unknown, 1971, B&W, silent, 3 min. Courtesy of Kumiko Matsuzawa.

Early pink film directed by Sôjirô Motoki.

The psychedelic short is Renzo Kinoshita's contribution to an educational children's program aired on Nippon Television.

In this 16mm work Shiroyasu Suzuki made himself the subject and tried to create a film based on his own image. However, once he started filming, it became clear that his image was nothing more than a camera fetish. Then, realizing that he must expose his empty self, he begins to think about making "15 Days".

Experimental short by Iwata Yūji

An uncool but funny love struggle between a worldly-minded young man and a quiet, serious young man for a kind-hearted madonna.

A diary film composed by images where the director, after buying a CineKodak 16 (a pre-war 16mm camera) at a second hand camera shop, starts filming his wife, his newborn baby and his workplace.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

Space. Inspired by photographs of Winston Link (Night Trick), this film is composed of images of trains passing by a house. Trains are seen from inside the house in a variety of viewing angles. The film lists all possible perspectives on the passing train and becomes a metaphor of cinema.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

Pink film by Satoru Kobayashi.

An image of an Inari shrive, overlapped with the hands of a monk holding a symbol. The work’s shamanistic imagery and rapid speed are precursors to the more spiritual and psychedelic animation of Aihara’s later years.

Double screen short experimental film by Tani Mario

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

Having received a good response to Impressions of the Sunset, he continued to develop his filmmaking expressed from an everyday perspective, and carried his camera everywhere to shoot whatever was around him. Composing the work in four parts, he reflects on his mental states in a narration that resembles audio commentary. As he films the filmmaker loses motivation to film, and realizing that he is deadlocked in his own life decides to quit his job. The act of filming changes both the filmmaker’s understanding and the practical aspects of his life.

Soji-ji (1979) is a video work documenting a chant recitation at a Zen temple. The chant recited by many monks does not proceed in unison like group singing. Each monk recites in sync with his breath, so that the intake of breath occurs at different moments. That is to say, each monk articulates the chant differently. Since there is no unified division, when the multiple chants overlap, an endless wave of chant (sutra) appears as a collective density or modality (at the same time, each monk’s steps form a totally different rhythm from the individual chants).

After the Expo ’70 Destruction Joint-Struggle Group disbanded, Katō released Brahmin (Burāmin, 1971-76).

『奇病Ⅱ』Bizarre disease Ⅱ：1977/5min

Time. In HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes a long process a year it takes to cross a railway station. The film consists of an image of a train crossing a bush in the garden Ando. The film was shot from the same angle fixed for six months, through the seasons.

Experimental short by Iwata Kazuo

Pink film by Kan Mukai.

A video installation using three monitors and mirrors, Ooi and Environs depicts the Tokyo cityscape with electronically modified footage of the city. Aiming to create an interactive environment, images reflected on the mirror shift as audience members move.

In the end of the 19th century, social restoration occurred in Japan. Seizing on the confusion, Gonnosuke deprives land from farmers, and this pushes him way to the top as a businessman. However, he has hideous sexual propensity which he sexually abuses women. Gonnosuke excruciates hard and causes 2 housemaids to die. The dreadful history recurs...

In February 1969 activists and students gather on the Underground Square between East and West exit of Shinjuku Station. They declare the place a greek 'agora', a place where people connect and debate about politics. When they collide with anti-protesters the police closes the gathering place down.

After seeing Velvet Underground perform in Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitables in New York, Tanaami became interested stroboscopic effects. This flicker film was conceived as the first of many but this was the only one that was realized. (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan)

Early pink film from 1972.

What is a frame? He attempts to make a film that doesn't have the normal 16mm frame. He also doesn't respect standard recording principles. Thus, a distinction must be made between: - the real time during which he films the object (himself) through his camera. - the time the film is recorded. These two periods do not always correspond to real time. The image must illustrate the search for these different notions of time. To achieve this, he experiments and places a 16mm film on top of a 35mm film during the shooting.

I wondered what it would feel like to see another image at the moment the bubble bursts. I wondered if there was a crucial difference between splicing another image onto a frame just before the bubble bursts, and splicing another image onto a frame just after the bubble bursts, so I created this work to watch that moment over and over again.

Born in Tokyo in 1959. While studying oil painting at Musashino Art University, he joined the animation club "Mysterious Magic Lantern Society" and began creating films. In 1980, he joined the independent film screening group "Animation 80" upon its establishment and has been submitting works every year since then. His works have been exhibited at numerous festivals, including the "Torino International Film Festival" (1986, Turin, Italy), the "Shanghai Animation Festival" (1988, Shanghai, China), and "The Evolution of Animation" (1988, O Museum). His unique worldview blends elegance and grotesqueness, and he continues to explore a wide range of expressive techniques, including two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and live-action animation.