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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2014 | 15 min 25 sec | HD | 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...

2017 | 31 min | HD | 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...

2024 | 3 min 28 sec | 16mm | color | 1.37:1 | 24 FPS | arabic | mono

"It suits me to be with the people who die, I pity you for being with the kings who kill."
Victor Hugo

Cast Hanin Siam

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

2015 | 30 min | HD | 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...

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

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

2019 | 10 min 30 sec | super 8 | 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

2020 | 8 min 30 sec | super 8 | 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

2016 | 20 min | HD | 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...

2017 | 31 min | MiniDV | 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...

2015 | 65 min | MiniDV | 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...

2023 | 11 min | super 8 | 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.

2019 | 2 min 45 sec | super 8 | 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