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In his darkened apartment the poet, translator, and lyricist discusses his work and his "art of being alone". In the words of Tanikawa: "If there is love, there is nothing more to say...".

Ueda, Koike and Keiko are in their fourth year at university. The time limit on their paradise of university is drawing to a close, and they are all feeling impatient in their own ways. Keiko is unable to find a job. Ueda is unsure of Keiko's feelings. Koike is torn between her dream of becoming a novelist and the reality of finding a job. The summer is passing. As if to hold on to their time in paradise, they enjoy a late night of fireworks. In his dreams, Koike sees a strange family picture. The image of the three of them sitting around a make-shift table on a riverbank overgrown with summer grass softly and unobtrusively conveys to the viewer their anxiety about their ambiguous future. The film's sincere image of adolescence is heartbreaking.

A compilation of violent and graphic video and news footage.

1989 short film.

Fragments of images emerge from the empty space, and before you know it, a heavy wall surface is built. If you break through it, a flood of light will overflow.

An omnibus made up of three stories featuring the characters "Man A and Man B", "Woman A and Woman B" and "Man A and Woman A". What happens when two people with completely different personalities are brought together? Something seems to happen, but in the end nothing happens. This film looks at the subtle twists and turns of communication between people from a pure perspective. The characters of the actors are hard to ignore.

Writes Imai, "As a photographer during the 1970s, my interest in capturing time led me to explore the video medium. After utilizing video in two or three works, I saw a similarity between videotape and an ancient scroll, in that they both capture a story of our time. I started using physical videotape as a metaphorical representation of time, rolling out the magnetic tape from right to left, representing a narrative from beginning to end."

Megumi goes shopping in Harajuku. She wants to have a wonderful love. There's someone she's interested in, and before she knows it, she's next to him. She met him again when she was in a cafe...

This is the opening animation of URACON III.

A landscape that has been filmed once is projected onto a screen and then filmed again. The re-shot screen changes with the sound of quick beats. An unremarkable local landscape. Roads stretching through rice paddies, clusters of telephone poles, wooden houses with large eaves. These landscapes are transformed into a blur of memory for the purpose of reshooting. The electrically produced noise-like acoustics and the sound of beating quislings beat the landscape out of the memory circuits of the brain. For a moment, a girl stands in front of a screen of landscape, and the landscape rotates around her. The whole work is more than an idea, including the composition in which the synthesis of a kind of screen process brings about change.

My high school life is the worst, but I wanted to express that feeling while I'm the worst," says the director, and his feelings are conveyed through direct images. In his room, the protagonist looks at an album while wearing an eye patch for some reason. The sound of sniffling throughout the film. A classroom scene is repeated like a formula. In contrast to the quiet flow of the first half of the film, the second half is filled with the power of visual sadism and a throbbing urge for violence, such as the constant beating of a boy on a motorbike.

In four minutes, the delicate and lyrical sensibility of a female filmmaker permeates the viewer's mind in this short film made up of only four shots. On a lightly rainy spring day, the filmmaker arrives at the beach with her camera, and asks two friends to be her subjects, lying on their stomachs on the rain-soaked ground, she slowly zooms in on them as they walk down the street from a low angle. The cut brings back the feeling of the cold ground, familiar to anyone who has ever shot 8mm, and before you know it you find yourself looking through the viewfinder with the artist. A visual diary was casually written with awkward and confident sketches of the landscape and shy narration.

16mm. Won Bluedents International Film Festival Director Award

Shot on video in 1989, is a reflection on film of the ideas he captured in a series of photos towards the end of his career. Cherry blossoms are here depicted against the Sun, thus losing all the color and beauty they are usually associated with, and mutating instead into black shapeless figure of almost phantasmatic solitude. (Matteo Boscarol)

8mm work from the 5th Pia Film Festival.

A sunny day with little sister, 8mm unfinished film by Toshihiko Omote.

Erotic-drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

Experimental short by Visual Brains.

Erotic drama distributed by Nikkatsu for home video.

A naked woman in the water, two women caressing each other in a pool without water, a woman in a cage, four half-naked women standing in a room. The fragmentary images of the various women are chained together in a discontinuous manner, and as a whole, a dry eroticism with ambiguous meaning drifts from the screen. The laughter, murmurs, and screams of the women overlap to form a unique internal world that the artist, a woman, has captured with her physiological sensibility. A film that attempts to confirm the uncertainty of our existence.

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

During the Bon holiday, Rika is planning to return to Sado Island when she receives a summer greeting postcard from her high school friend Junko. The message invites her to come back, as all their old classmates will be gathering for the first time in a long while. Upon returning home, Rika is met at the port by Kōno, a former classmate she has not seen since graduation. As they reminisce about the past, their conversation flows easily. However, when Rika asks about the upcoming reunion, Kōno strangely avoids giving a clear answer.

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

An infinite horizon line and the image of continuous waves... Experimentation with the vertical displacement of the image of a 35 mm film. 35mm film has four perforations per image. If the perforations are offset from the projector window, the image is split in two on the screen: for example, in a face image, the eyes are at the bottom and the mouth is at the top; The image has two displaced parts. To avoid this mistake, this multi-image movie uses collage. The filmmaker assembles an image by perforation (the normal technique is an image by 4 perforations). Therefore, there is never a vertical shift in the projected image.

Live concert recorded in 1988.

A bold adaptation of Koharu Kisaragi's play of the same name. Four girls in a high school drama club try to put on their first play, "DOLL", but it doesn't go well because they have many differences. This 102-minute film follows the emotional trajectory of the girls as they hurt each other, come to believe that no one needs them, and end up committing suicide. The truth of these four people, who tried to live pure and beautiful lives, is heartbreaking.

Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.

Original footage of a human dissection is inserted into electronic noise. The video blends the Psychic TV song "Je T'aime," a cover of the duet "Je t'aime moi non plus" by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, whispering words of love. Produced for the undergraduate program.

This work began when the filmmaker noticed buds sprouting on a dead branch. He realized that "the dry mountain is actually covered with buds". The story revolves around the way the number of objects appears. Three young women perform in order to create the atmosphere of feeling life in the breath of plants.

8mm maiden film by Jun Kitamikado, 1987. A film that was recorded in a very natural way without hesitation.

A stop motion animation using several phenakistoscopes of a polyhedron and other materials. Five “Egg birds” appears in the artificial garden.

Hiroshi Yamazaki, 16mm, 10'00.

As the filmmaker metaphorically represents the “romanticism as love towards mineral,” they are gathered through the act of shooting (the physical movements on camera) and they are a collection of images being put in the film; these meanings are to be interpreted by the audience.

The view of an amusement park that's shot by a fixed camera changes into an uncanny one by painting directly onto celluloid and strange sounds. It is an attempt to approach the inner world through the common view by private eye of the author himself.

This is an animated work created using sand. We built our own multi-plane shooting table and adjusted the transmitted and reflected light using a lighting controller. This was done to blend the differences in the texture of the sand expressed by the lighting. Additionally, we utilized the sand's unpredictable nature - how it disappears without notice and reappears when touched - to create accidental images by vibrating the sand around the platform where it was placed. These images included motifs of human conversation, living creatures, life, the afterlife, and the universe. We moved these images through metamorphosis, like a game of word association.

16mm experimental film by Masanobu Nakamura.

Even if you watch it all day long, the human eye cannot see the movement of the clouds. In that sense, it can be said that interval shooting in movies has expanded human vision itself. Just as the invention of photography captures momentary movement, cinema presents a world that seems to compress real time. Interval shooting is normally used only in science films and the like. In this work, such changes were captured at intervals of a few seconds, rather than frame-by-frame. Without a timer or anything, I set the camera on a tripod in my room, sat down on a chair beside me, and pressed the release bit by bit, entirely manually from before dawn until the sun went down.

Official VHS recording of G.I.S.M.'s live performance at Nakano public hall, May 30th 1985.

An attempt to confuse the relationship between the film's material surface and the images recorded on it. As a man continues to walk in circle, where three scratches are made on the film. Xenogenese is a biological term meaning heterogenesis.

A flash of light splits the darkness, revealing a mysterious image. The images are rapidly replaced with sharp noise that combines wave-like repetitiveness and explosiveness, and the flicker effect that it brings makes the viewer away from reality.

Animated children's story about a nonconformist but brave frog. Bunna wants to challenge his community's status quo by learning about the world outside.

LaserDisc released in 1984 that features cute kittens and puppies.

Women are trained in BDSM...

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)

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.

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.

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).