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...

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※ Special premiere at Uplink Factory, Tokyo, on April 7, 2013.

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...

※ Official selection at the 11th FIFMA (International Film Festival for Fine Crafts) in 2018.
※ Official selection at the 35th FIFAM (Amiens International Film Festival) in 2015.

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...

※ Official selection at the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Berlin (2019).
※ Official selection at the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris (2019).
※ World Premiere at the 28th FID Marseille (2017).

2015 | 4 min | black & white | 1.77:1 | sound | stereo
with Junko Hiroshige

Fragment from a recording session...
to record the moment...

※ Official selection at the 16th International festival of experimental video Images contre nature (2016).

2019 | 10 min 30 sec | black & white | 1.37:1 | 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

※ Official selection at the Kinam Festival, Mexico (2022).
※ Official selection at the Fisura Festival, Mexico (2022).
※ Official selection at the Bogotrax Festival, Colombia (2022).
※ Official selection at the 1st Obskura Contemporary Analog Film Festival, France (2021).
※ Official selection at the 16th Curta 8 - Festival Internacional de Cinema Super 8 de Curitiba, Brasil (2020).
※ Official selection at the 9th Family Film Project, Portugal (2020).
※ Official selection at the 3rd Frontera-Sur, Festival Internacional de Cine de No Ficción, Chile (2020).
※ Official selection at the 10th Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland (2020).
※ Official selection at the 4th "The Unforeseen" International Experimental Film Festival, Serbia (2019).
※ World Premiere at the 23rd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (2019).

2020 | 8 min 30 sec | color | 1.37:1 | 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

※ Screening at Mientras tanto CINE /Temporada IV, Uruguay (2022).
※ Best film at the 17th Curta 8 – Festival Internacional de Cinema Super 8 de Curitiba, Brazil (2022).
※ Official selection at Tranås at the Fringe, Sweden (2022).
※ Official selection at the Pan-Cinema Experimental, Brazil (2022).
※ Official selection at the Fisura Festival, Mexico (2022).
※ Official selection at the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, USA (2022).
※ Official selection at the Peripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival, USA (2022).
※ Official selection at the Bogotrax Festival, Colombia (2022).
※ Official selection at the 24th International Encounters Traverse, France (2021).
※ Official selection at the Revolutions Per Minute Festival, USA (2021).
※ Official selection at the Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Spain (2021).
※ Official selection at the 16th Simultan Festival, Romania (2021).
※ Official selection at the 1st Skopje Poetry Festival, North Macedonia (2021).
※ Screening at the 7th edition of A homeless mobile cinema, Greece (2021).
※ Official selection at the 4th Frontera-Sur, Festival Internacional de Cine de No Ficción, Chile (2021).
※ Official selection at the Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art, France (2021).
※ Official selection at the 2nd Kinoskop - International Festival of analog experimental cinema and audio-visual performance, Serbia (2020).

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...

※ Screened at the 21st edition of the international film festival Les Écrans Documentaires (2017).
※ Official selection at the 22nd edition of L’Étrange Festival (2016).
※ Official selection at the 8th edition of the film festival Partie(s) de Campagne (2015).

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...

※ Official selection at the Tokyo Documentary Film Festival in Osaka (2020).
※ Special mention at the Tokyo Documentary Film Festival, Japan (2018).
※ Official selection at the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Berlin (2018).
※ Official selection at the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris (2018).
※ Official selection at the 15th edition of the international film festival Signes de Nuit (2017).

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...

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...

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※ Official selection at the Festival de l’Histoire de l’Art, France (2021).
※ Official selection at the 19th Festival Cinéma de la Paix?, Tunisia (2019).
※ Official selection at the 51st edition of the Sitges Film Festival, Spain (2018).
※ Official selection at the 5th edition of the Festival du Film de Fesses, Paris (2018).
※ Special premiere at Uplink Factory, Tokyo, on April 10, 2016.

2019 | 2 min 45 sec | color | 1.37:1 | mandarin | mono

Indolence - in nine pictures.

Cast Naying Ching

Film processing Retro Enterprises, Tokyo
Telecine Ocho y Pico, Madrid

※ Official selection at the Bogotrax Festival, Colombia (2022).
※ Official selection at the Portland Underground Film Festival, USA (2020).
※ Official selection at La Buissonière Film Festival, France (2019).
※ Official selection at the 15th Curta 8 - Festival Internacional de Cinema Super 8 de Curitiba, Brasil (2019).
※ Official selection at the This is not a robot film festival, Greece (2019).
※ Official selection at the Saigon Experimental Film Festival II, Vietnam (2019).