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An animated short film by Taku Furukawa.

Katsuhiro Yamaguchi and Hakudo Kobayashi presented the video performance Eat at Video Hiroba's first exhibition, Video Communication DO IT YOURSELF KIT. Two performers sit at a table. One records the other eating; then they switch roles. The live video feed of the performance was displayed on a monitor in the exhibition space.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

The fate of heavy smokers. The era is the Taisho era. A young man, while warming myself by the fire heavy smoking. Then, his chest instantly turned black. The fear of lung cancer creeping into the comical depiction. The author, a former smoker, dreamed the fate of smokers.

Bunkyo University Film Study Club 1979 8mm Film Production.

This full-length documentary documents the construction of the Red Flag Canal, presenting the project as a collective socialist achievement through the visual language of late-1960s Chinese state cinema.

This short animated film was shown at the Seiko Pavilion during the 1970 Osaka Expo. It tells the story of a day when time is thrown into chaos by an alien prank, and speaks to the importance of time. The rapid change of the seasons is full of the charm of metamorphosis (the process of changing shape), which Osamu Tezuka loved.

I cut out a rectangular portion of a photograph to create a peephole, equivalent to a camera viewfinder. The cut-out photograph is a sequence of photographs that show a hand pointing at the peephole. I repeatedly overlaid the sequence of peephole photographs onto a photograph of a corner of a room, creating an image in which the window looking into a part moves within the whole.

I made this in 1977 because I wanted to show a "Prologue" at the beginning and an "Epilogue" at the end of my solo exhibition. I used stock photographs from "Preparation."

8mm films are shot at 18 or 24 frames per second and projected at the same speed. Some 8mm projectors are capable of slow-motion projection. The slower the projection speed, the more intermittent the image becomes, making it clear that you are watching a series of slides in sequence. So I decided to try shooting something closer to normal movement using slow motion projection. I pressed the camera release button as hard as I could until my fingers cramped. The idea of ​​cinematic movement is to see pictures one after the other, so the shooting speed is up to your fingers, and the projection speed is also roughly the same.

“This film is assembled from a series of cuts conveying different moods. It is mostly composed of the simple action of seeing images alternately or in succession, such as of scissors cutting against each other, or of the blink of eyes peering through a magnifying glass. I thought of them as being like red, amber and green traffic lights.” (Isao Kota)

Live performance with two projectors. Human beings become shutters, if you flutter two fan in front of the lens. According to the movement, the eyes wink on the screen.

These are Yamashita Park and Yokohama sightseeing boats in 1976. In the live action section, I expressed the relationship between the landscape and the viewfinder with a moving matte, and in the photographic section, I explored the relationship between the image and the frame by presenting various patterns.

A movie film shot continuously is a series of action shots, one frame at a time. This is because there is a continuation of movement between the images in one frame and the next. On the other hand, since each frame is a single photograph, it is possible to trim and enlarge or reduce the image frame by frame. For example, if the normal zoom process is A→B→C→D, by enlarging and reducing each frame, it can become C→A→D→B. This is not unnatural since a movie is a series of photographs. The movement of the subject is continuous within the image that is enlarged and reduced frame by frame.

I took this photo in Uraga. I was carrying a tripod with an 8mm camera on it, so it was a selfie from behind. The tripod is always in the frame, so it has a strong presence. The film was then projected and each frame was re-shot at different zoom ratios, allowing viewers to alternate between looking at the entire screen and the center, frame by frame. In the second half, I re-photographed the screen so that the tilted landscape on the screen was returned to a horizontal position, expressing the idea that the landscape is stationary and it is the viewfinder that moves.

We filmed a cheetah roaming around at Tama Zoo. We projected that footage and followed the cheetah's movements on the screen with a camera. The cheetah was in a cage called a screen, so when we followed it, the darkness outside the screen came into the frame.

Sei, after murdering Ji-young for her inheritance and unintentionally causing the death of Ji-young's driver, is lured into a trap by the driver's fiancée, Hye-sook, who deceives Sei by making it seem as though Ji-young is still alive, leading to an escalating confrontation where they eventually become fugitives and lovers, but their brief happiness ends when Hye-sook falls to her death, and Sei is arrested.

A group of little monsters fight for a coin in a dark corner on a bookshelf.

What does a noose mean?

Thai horror film.

Film '74-A and Film '74-B are abstract experiments in which she cut and pasted films taken while running in Myeongdong, scraps of American movies, scribbles on sound magnetic film, and dots on lead film, and titled them according to the style of title construction (no title or strange symbols) that was popular among Western artists at the time.

Experimental short by Yoichi Nagata.

The film was made at a turning point in the struggle in Sanrizuka, documenting the actions against the first flights in Narita. The film chronicles the Sanrizuka struggle and the spring events that led to the occupation of the airport’s control tower by one of the factions in the opposition struggle.

Young-Ho and Seon-Hee fall in love during Korean War. As soon as they marry in a hurry, Young-Ho goes to a battlefield.

This film, which begins with the words "Be Peep 5" scratched into the film, is projected at 9 frames per second, twice the speed of the normal 8mm projection, 18 frames per second. By doing so, the object filmed frame by frame is exposed to the viewer's eyes for a longer period of time, creating an effect that is different from that of normal slow motion, where the object filmed at high speed is projected at a normal number of frames. This creates a strange sense of rhythm that strongly stimulates the viewer's sensibilities. 6 shows the overlapping of colors, and 7 shows the development of an image centered on silhouettes as the mind moves.

Lips, gun, murderous intent, darkness, loneliness, and a woman...

The White Hare of Inaba is a film directed by Katō Yoshihiro, a central member of Zero Jigen, with cinematography by the filmmaker Ōe Masanori. Drawing on the Japanese myth of the white hare of Inaba, it presents a white hare (i.e. woman) leaping across waters full of ferocious sharks (i.e. male-dominated society), presenting a vision for a new era while capturing on film the joy of human beings’ inherent Eros and a new mode of “family” that breaks free of feudalistic social constraints.

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

A Film by Keiji Uematsu.

A short film by Katsuhiro Yamaguchi.

Hiroshi Yamazaki, 16mm, 1'00

16mm, b&w, 7'00

The title is a phonetical arrangement in kanji Chinese characters of camp, a concept synonymous with Michio Okabe. Okabe radically explores his distinct, Japanese camp aesthetic in the enclosed space of the film world. As written in the kanji, “precious night, wealth of dreams” (貴い夜、夢の富), inhabitants of the night world such as butoh dancer, gay character, night watch, violinist, masseuse, yakitori shop, vampire, dog, and cat, appear one after another and unfold a disastrous but beautiful soirée.

Documentary about the harassment of striking garment factory workers in the city of Nakon Pathom, Thailand.

Dancing man. A woman clapping her hands to the rhythm. Narrow down your theme communication between men and women rhythmically expressed. People's movements stripped down to the bare minimum, the start and end points of the movement. A composed work by just two photos. Inspired by cinematic expression before the birth of cinema, it was made using a simple method.

Awesome men who gather in loyalty and scatter in loyalty. The gangsters who have been scattered to do good for the town they live in gather again in the middle of Myeong-dong. The reason is the news that new rogues have appeared. Gathering to correct their unjust behavior, they unite to punish the bad guys and go back to their respective hometowns.

Yeong-ah falls in love with Hyeong-jun after picking his pocket and the two have a child together. However, his justifiably suspicious wife in Hong Kong begins having Hyeong-jun followed. Yeong-ah kills the private eye but not before her secrets are revealed

It is difficult for Heo Mu-Tae, a minor clock, to prepare his wife's hospital expenses with his salary. Without losing courage, he gets a second job at dawn and night saying nothing to his company because he needs money to buy the battery of an artificial heart to expand his wife's life

Myeong-ae loses both her parents during the Korean War and her sister dies soon after. She wanders to Seoul and takes a job in a bar. There she meets, Hak-su, a university student and the two live together. Myeong-ae gives birth to Hak-su's daughter, but soon after, Hak-su is killed in an explosion. Giving up her infant for adoption by an American family, Myeong-ae takes the name 'Anna' and becomes a prostitute for American soldiers.

Prosecutor Song Kuk Jin expanded his private funds to run an accommodating Institute Hee Mang Ja Yul Won for children who committed crimes before. One day, a woman police officer Kim Seong Suk is dispatched there for one-person-one-skill education.

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.

In college days, Mi-Nu, So-Hee, and Si-Hyeong were friendly each other. When both Mi-Nu and So-Hee promise to get married, Si-Hyeong gives blessing for them even if he feels pains of love failure. The news is released that Mi-Nu is lost and dies when he goes to a foreign country to collect news articles together with friendly mission of the neutral nations. Si-Hyeong feels sorrowful to hear the news, but gets married to So-Hee, who is pregnant, for her wellbeing. When they forget Mi-Nu's accident, Si-Hyeong hears the news in the newspapers that Mi-Nu was kidnapped by the enemy but escapes dramatically in 15 months. Mi-Nu feels much disappointed to hear the marriage of both Si-Hyeong and So-Hee, but prays their wellbeing and leaves for New York as a resident staff reporter.

The Choi family has long protected their golden Buddha which is said to contain the power to guard the fate of the nation. Both Chinese bandits and the Japanese military learn of this statue and Choi requires the aid of Iljimae to protect it.

Kim Deok-pal becomes a knave at a young age because of his father's indulgence. While living such a life, he gets to know Ko Seon-mi and tries to become a new person, but fails and is assaulted. After his father dies, Deok-pal starts his thug life for his stepmother and half-brothers. One day, while fighting with those who assaulted him, he is chased by the police and flees to the church. However, the pastor hands over Deokpal to his detective, and Deokpal hates religious people.

A stern matron lives together in a luxurious home with her three married children. The eldest son's wife is not popular with the family because of her cross temper and foolishness. She invests all her husband's fortune in paintings that turn out to be forgeries. Her husband brings his mistress into the household as a maid. His mother is aware of their relationship and it has her approval.