Fisheye(2017)

1984(en)

A film commissioned and conceived by the artist Eduardo Paolozzi using drawings and photocopies provided by him. A non-narrative film focusing on Paolozzi's themes about modern man.

Getting Dressed(ja)

This woman has detached herself from the outside world. For her, it is daily work to feed her bird and to look at the town from her window. Because she doesn’t go out, she does not even put on clothes. However, this daily life has ended. She has run out of the cornflakes that she eats every day. As we get up in the morning and put on clothes, we are alive in a social system. Nobody understands whether it is the correct world. However, even if you escape from the system, the day you have to return will come.

Woman Who Stole Fingers(xx)

One day, a boy who separated from his mother’s hand is deprived of his fingers. His fingers become a larva and part from his hand. The house. . . conceal[s] a relationship between the two from anyone. How does the boy who is deprived of his fingers grow up?

Bring Me Up(ja)

Almost everyone in a contemporary society is picked up and moved by someone or something like a ‘Sugoroku’. The first one which picks up is ‘Parents’. A hero grows up along a ‘Sugoroku’. This work describes. . . the process of his growth as he depends on his parents. . . One day he decides to cut off his relationship with his family.

The Wound(ru)

An old woman remembers her life and the strange shadow figure that has followed her through it.

Scripta volant(ja)

I try to set this work – a film using texts, or a film-book – between watching and reading. This film is dedicated to J.L. Borges, a great artist, who had translated The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde at his early childhood, became one of the greatest writers of the 20th century and continued to publish the works by dictation even after losing his eyesight.

Promises(ja)

It was a season when the tree leaves turn red. There was a woman crying in front of the child’s [body]. She takes the shadow off. . . her dead son. Just to stay with him she runs with the shadow in her arms through the town at night. Then she makes a promise. . .

creator(ja)

A man is left alone in empty white space. He starts to create his own world with materials popped up out of nowhere and build a house and made animals. But there is a hole in this world and he wonders about it. In the meanwhile he learns there is the border where they can survive around the hole.

tick tack(ja)

A little Chinku thinks his father does not love him. And when he thinks [that] his grandfather, his only supporter, rejects his hand for help, Chinku feels betrayed. . . Chinku draws circles with a huge and heavy pencil, which the time to fly fast. . .

Better back then(ja)

A girl is kept on the [move] by a witch and continues to peel potatoes. She is fed up and tries to escape in vain. She gets desperate and decides to beat the witch. . . what will she find? What is her intention? Can we undo what has been done?

Rootless Heart(ja)

Two high school students are playing in the ruins. They hear something from the darkness and one of them goes deep into a dark room where something suspicious is hiding and both of them have their hearts taken out. Later a boy and his sister drop by the ruins. . .

Specimens of Obsessions(ja)

A man jumped out of the window. Why did he have to leap out of his room? As time reverses, his struggles gradually get revealed. He has confined himself to his room and tried to escape from the horrible illusions and the memory of a. . . man. His room was full of specimens and each specimen had a significant name.

A brightening life(ja)

It’s an underground world. Up on the ground there are many people coming and going. There lives a garbage bag. . . underground. He has no work, no home and no family. This is a story in which a dirty black garbage bag gains a new life through. . . various experiences.

come back to my mind(ja)

The protagonist is with friends but bored with the conversation. His mind often slips away to his own imaginary world and comes back to them. . .

PART BLUE(ja)

The blue evolves. The blue rises toward the upper world. The blue becomes green and then yellow, which makes things unstable. So red circle appears to bring into balance between blue and yellow. These three colours unite into one, [rising] until the summit, over the boundary line, and becomes a white circle to a full stop. And then it returns to the first state.

Hole(ja)

There was a man with a hole in his belly. The reason was not certain but he just kept eating the food that grew on the tables as if to fill his hole. All of a sudden the food disappeared, something came up from the table and ran away. He was at a loss but killed it to fill the hole with the dead body. The hole was filled half by the dead body

Tik-Tak(et)

Watchmaker controls the time, but the mouse living in the watchmaker's workshop controls the clocks... This is a film about time and its ephemeral nature.

To Thy Heart(pl)

He was so charming. Whenever he was smiling, all heads turned to him. He was schizophrenic, she was ready to do anything... Then she stopped pining her hopes on him.

Ruski Make Up(de)

Mon Colle Knight: Legendary Fire Dragon(ja)

An alternative interpretation of the series' start.