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Early 8mm filmwork by Masanobu Nakamura.

Early 8mm filmwork by Masanobu Nakamura.

Early 8mm filmwork by Masanobu Nakamura.

Experimental short by Masaki Matsushita.

Michio Okabe's only 8mm film, which was miraculously discovered in 2021 at the back of a closet in his room, after being unaccounted for and thought lost for a long time. He tied an 8mm camera around the neck of his dog Shiro and recorded the world as seen from the dog's point of view. Okabe's anarchy, in which he abandoned-looking through the viewfinder himself and let the dog shoot the film, is the quintessence of Okabe's work.

The outflow of population, mainly young people, from agricultural, mountain and fishing villages in Japan to urban areas became remarkable from around 1960, but the actual situation of Japan's depopulation, which is rapidly progressing in the shadow of high economic growth, was interviewed after 1970. Pick up the voices of the residents. We interviewed mountain villages and remote islands in Hokkaido, Tohoku, China, and Kyushu. The aging of villages and the rapid decrease of households affect all the lives of residents such as school consolidation, agriculture and forestry, and living road management, and the decline in village (community) functions is further accelerating remote villages.

A young man passes by a girl huddled on a bank. A mysterious world begins with a group of boys in the direction she points. In this world of life and death, the protagonist, whose emotions are controlled to the utmost extent, and the depiction of life as justice and death as evil, deny the superficial grasp of life. The film is a trace of the unparalleled encounter between living and making.

The comical live-in life of Yuki, a stylist, and Dodoichi, a first-year college student who has come to Tokyo to visit his senior. The film is full of dark episodes such as infertility, prostitution, suicide, etc., but the filmmakers are careful not to lose the light touch, and how to make the best use of the characters in each situation is enclosed in a scene setting like a scene in a famous movie. The film is full of enthusiasm to show us the setting and storyline that could easily become a pattern of a cheap melodrama.

A coming-of-age film that begins with a slide show of 8mm commemorative photos from a school trip to Okinawa and follows the daily life of a young salesman. The scenery of the town seen through the windshield has a unique color tone. The scenery of the town, seen through the windshield, is projected in a unique color scheme, and the scenery is indescribably lonely and beautiful. Only when the protagonist faces the scenery in this way can we sense that he has found the spark that can be called "youth.

According to the director, this film is made by Osaka people, for Osaka people (?). according to the director. The director himself appears in the film and gives a light-hearted performance. The combination of the slapstick sensibility and the beautiful screen is indescribably stylish.

The light and shadows of today's youth are intermingled in a prismatic world of scenes depicting images of agonizing days with a surreal touch, and scenes of rampaging in all directions in the real world. Eight-Man is an energetic young man who dreams of being Superman but can't be.

Touching! Tears! Romance! The beginning and the end of the film are linked in a repeat. A fox, a baby mushroom, and a poisonous mushroom scurry across the screen.

In the sky, drawn with sky blue crayons, floating between the clouds, drawn with sky blue crayons, is an airplane, drawn with sky blue crayons. The one riding in it is me, drawn with sky crayons.

A young man appears to a young girl who dreams of escaping reality, deprived of her freedom. Eventually, the two set off in search of a new world.

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

8mm film by Ohtani Jun

An experimental short.

A scene of a street corner transformed through the use of a single gradual filter change and a superimposed shot of the position of the midday sun on 27 consecutive days.

The filmmaker himself states that this work was inspired by René Magritte's "The Stone" (or "The Castle of the Pyrenees") and Toshio Matsumoto's "Atman". By re-filming several still photographs on 8mm film, he imbues these static images with movement; using zoom effects and other techniques, he draws the viewer into a surreal world.

A 16mm wide film without perforations. I pull it by hand and send it off. If the speed is a little slow, you may slip. It melts from the heat of the projector. The visuals are the melted footage was re-shot. It has an image of a multi-layered structure. Screening prints are only used once and then become trash. The original "disposable film."

A submission to the Sogetsu Short Film Festival by three students from the Department of Photography and Visual Language at Kuwasawa Design School (桑沢デザイン研究所).

Bunkyo University Film Research Club 1979 8mm Film Production.

Bunkyo University Film Study Club 1979 8mm Film Production.

8mm film work from 1979 by the Film Studies Department of Bunkyō University. Directed by Mikage Sagisu. It is a feature film depicting the emotional journey of two women through love and romance. The film overflows with a vivid sensitivity characteristic of a female director. The French title means something like “Look at the end.” (It seems that there is a typographical error in the actual title.) The original film print does not have a magnetic sound track, so it is likely that the audio was played from a cassette tape in sync during screenings. Unfortunately, the audio tape has been lost, and it is now impossible to know what lines the characters were speaking in the film. The condition of the film itself is relatively good, and it appears it has rarely been screened since it was made, but it strongly conveys the atmosphere of the late 1970s. It would be a real shame not to watch it solely because it is now silent.

8mm film made in 1979 by the Bunkyo University Film Research Club.

Experimental short by Harumi Fujii.

Second work made by Yanagisawa after he turned from PR films to independent documentaries. The film was shot at the Nishitaga Hospital in Sendai, and depicts daily life and learning for children with progressive muscular dystrophy.

Experimental short / Optical Color / 16mm Film / 9 min.

Based on the childrens' book by Kanzawa Toshiko.

8mm film by Akira Hoshino.

Experimental short by Masaki Matsushita.

This is the first film produced by 'Hatsukennokai'. Set in Tokyo, Kyoto, and the Noto Peninsula, the members of 'Hatsukennokai' are improvised to take pictures of them eating, walking down the street, chasing each other, and playing music.

A unique road movie that took two years to make, based on the concept of "filming the changing seasons like a haiku poem". The men's journey, consisting of four parts - The Wandering Vampire, Yuugyo, The Lonely Journey and Habodashi Yakusha Hoboki - creates a surreal alternate world amidst the beauty of nature. The cast includes Sotobayama Fumiaki of the underground theatre company Harumidashi Gekijo, folk singer Mikami Hiroshi, Zero Dimensional, Oe Masanori and many others.

A bare foot rests on the monitor, while at the same time the screen of the same monitor shows another foot. This picture, however, is upside-down (suggesting a mirror effect) so as to hint that both feet are one and the same. Consequently this symmetry partly conceals the contrast between the two feet: dressed and bare, reversed positions within and outside the video screen, recorded and again registered.

This is a film with a rich and expansive image based on an incredibly high technical level, with a mostly female crew, and careful attention to the composition and tone of each cut, and a calculated editing process that follows the flow of the images. A symbolic night for all women, in which something important is lost and something important is gained, is written in a poem-like form over the flow of the images.

A unique film about one girl's 20 changes, featuring only one performer despite its 40-minute running time.

Shot over a period of 15 months from April 1969 to July 1970, Motoshinkakarannu captures a tumultuous time in Okinawa’s occupation, offering an unflinching snapshot of Okinawan society that captures the daily lives of sex workers, yakuza, tourists and G.I.s in Koza City.

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

『奇病Ⅰ』Bizarre disease Ⅰ：1977/3min

An experimental short.