April’s shadows
2012 | 52 min | black & white - color | 1.33:1
english, japanese and french without subtitles | stereo
"Things that are useless now but arouse a fond memory of the past." ー Sei Shōnagon
Fragments of a journey, fragments of Time, fragments of memories, places, ephemeral moments, images and sounds, faces, useless details…
A descent into the depths of Tokyo’s night, the abstraction of its noises, dancing with its shadows.
With Michel Henritzi, Rinji Fukuoka, Akiko Hotaka, à qui avec Gabriel, Tetuzi Akiyama, Mico...
→ watch the film through the website Dérives
Ch’l’eintailleu
2014 | 15 min 25 sec | color | 1.77:1 | french, picard
stereo
Prelude to a portrait of Jean-Pierre Facquier, ch’l’eintailleu (wood carver) in the Saint-Leu district of Amiens: a free mind self-removed from social determinism, who gives new life to wood through constant dialogue, both with nature and his alter ego, the puppet Lafleur...
Gestures
2017 | 31 min | color - black & white | 1.77:1 | stereo
Sightings of Loren Connors. To graze against the pulsations of time, to feel matter, to linger on the imperceptible frailty of gesture...
Jolie chanson
2015 | 30 min | black & white | 1.77:1 | french | stereo
"One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her."
Arthur Rimbaud
Fragments from a portrait of Jean-Louis Costes - sincere artist, versatile designer, poet of excess -, a man forever atoning his anguish through singing, performance, drawing and writing...
Junko
2015 | 4 min | black & white | 1.77:1 | sound | stereo
with Junko Hiroshige
Fragment from a recording session...
to record the moment...
Of her Kingdom
2019 | 10 min 30 sec | black & white | 1.37:1 | 24 FPS
japanese | mono
To evoke the other’s absence, from the vantage point of her Kingdom - disoriented memories, fragmented gestures and sounds, fleeting moments...
Cast Mayumi
Music Loren Connors
Film processing Retro Enterprises, Tokyo
Telecine Ocho y Pico, Madrid
One should never be cured
2020 | 8 min 30 sec | color | 1.37:1 | 24 FPS | sound
stereo
"How hopeless it is
It would be better for me to sink beneath the waves
Perhaps then I could see my beloved from the Moon Capital"
Cast Akari Saito
Music Ken Ikeda
Hair/Makeup Ayumi Tanaka
Lighting Hirofumi Miyazaki, Toshifumi Ishihara
Wardrobe Akihiko Nakamura
Assistant-director Masayuki Koto
Film processing Retro Enterprises, Tokyo
Telecine Ocho y Pico, Madrid
Savagely, silence
2016 | 20 min | color - black & white | 1.77:1 | japanese
stereo
"The animal looks at us. We are naked before it."
Jacques Derrida
December 21, 2015. The image of a fox was captured by a camera inside the unit 2 building at Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant...
The other side of the skin
2017 | 31 min | color | 1.33:1 | japanese | stereo
Yuri Ishida imagines dolls and objects, manipulates fibers and fabrics, weaves sounds, caresses space, grazing fragile metamorphoses with her fingertips...
The Peony’s Whisper
2016 | 65 min | color | 1.33:1 | japanese | stereo
"The essential characteristic of the image is its presentness."
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Details from a portrait of Akira Naka, through the otherness of image and speech; broken up memory, fragmented time, reminiscences of places, moments, faces and bodies, during a back-and-forth between the recollections of a child and the aspirations of a man in his fifties...
We’ll go down the abyss in silence
2023 | 11 min | color - black & white | 1.37:1 | 24 FPS
sound | stereo
Cast Mamiko Hosokawa
Music Naoto Yamagishi
Film processing Retro Enterprises, Tokyo
Telecine Ocho y Pico, Madrid
An animal, which appears to be a fox, was seen outside the containment of the Fukushima nuclear power plant’s No. 2 reactor, where radiation levels can reach more than 10 sieverts per hour. It appeared in front of surveillance cameras on the morning of December 21, 2015, and spent 7 to 8 minutes there before disappearing.
Yōng lǎn
2019 | 2 min 45 sec | color | 1.37:1 | 24 FPS | mandarin
mono
Indolence - in nine pictures.
Cast Naying Ching
Film processing Retro Enterprises, Tokyo
Telecine Ocho y Pico, Madrid