Dahlia

(2009/HDV/13min18sec)

This work is one film of the omnibus "Seeing".

About "Seeing"
Filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio, a pioneer of experimental film in Japan and an advocate of Neo-Documentarism since the 1960s, conceived and structured this omnibus film, directed by six experimental filmmakers. Based on the theme of "seeing", proposed by Matsumoto, the six directors approach the subject from varying individual perspective and develop their own unique images. The film addresses fundamental questions: What does it mean to "see" things, and What does it mean to "make films"?
(from the official catalog of Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2009)

2009/HDV/95min (6 film omnibus)
Planning, Structure: MATSUMOTO Toshio
Producer: SANO Masumi (Sano Gallery)
Director: KATO Itaru / KANO Shiho / MAEDA Shinjiro / INAGAKI Kanako / OKUNO Kunitoshi / OKI Hiroyuki

Shinonome Omogo Ishizuchi

(2008/DV/15min)

This work was commissioned by the Kuma Museum of Art (Ehime Prefecture). It revolves around scenery in Ehime Prefecture and Matsuyama-born film director Itami Mansaku. It begins in Shinonome, the setting of a short story by poet Nakamura Kusatao which is thought to be a depiction of his friendship with Mansaku, and follows Mansaku as he return to Matsuyama from Kyoto where he has become a film director and visits Omogo and Ishizuchi.
(from the catalog from Image Forum Festival 2010)

feinfügig... unüberholbar...

(2007/video/9min)

sound | Yurihito Watanabe

Candle

(2007/DV/8min)