Mikio Yamazaki

Rukani (Yamazaki), a middle-aged man with a cosplay fetish, tries to shoot an adult video featuring a woman named Karinpa (Komoda) as his model. However, whenever things start to get erotic, a mysterious red bat suddenly appears out of nowhere and gets in the way.

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As part of the street observation work, I was working on collecting and arranging the number of the beast 666 in the city. Then, I realized that it was boring and decided to return to the drama for the first time in a while. Chepki, a woman who investigates the lot number where 6s are lined up, and Lucani, a middle-aged cosplay fetish man who is a driver while questioning the certainty of her head. The strange behavior and behavior of the woman finally leaves the woman behind in the river. At the base of the motif is Ferrini's "Michi".

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This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and the personal film, and benefiting from the participation of multiple generations of cineastes, it is a reflection upon the original cinematic experience.

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This is the DVD version of the video event held at Loft Plus One in Shinjuku on September 10th, supervised by Chiaki Konaka. 5 presenters gathered with "truly scary films" they had discovered. The DVD includes "Home Movie", "Honeymoon", "Blue Film", "Psychic", "Telekinesis Experiment" and "Reverberation".

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The concept of "Rest In Eternalism" was to closely examine and photograph the things I encountered while traveling, so I thought about what would happen if I tried photographing one place thoroughly. I focused on the alleys I had discovered during the filming of my previous works.

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Aiming to a tranquil yet raw energy. All of the footage was fixed using a tripod and the result was a series of inorganic objects that appear one after the other.

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No new footage was taken, and everything was spliced ​​together from previously shot 8mm film. When I've been shooting 8mm for this long, I often forget what kind of memories I've taken. When I took it out and looked at it in a viewer, I saw my friend, who had already died, smiling happily. My friend, who I don't know if he's still alive, is also smiling. Even though I was supposed to be surrounded by humiliation every day, I was able to look happy as I posed for the camera. That's right, I thought, this is a running light. A flip book about life that you read just before you die.

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One shot from inside a moving car and the other showing a vague image of a boy and girl playing in a cluster of light spots spinning around like a galaxy. Accompanied by short monologues, cheap keyboard music and even the soundtrack of a scene from an old Japanese movie.

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The title is a combination of "I want to meet you" and "靉靆 (the flow of clouds, or a lens)". A kind of fake work using old film shot 10 years after its expiration date. However the "film you don't know who belongs to" that is inserted in the middle is real. ​A living story that could only be realized through film. Due to the death of Kamioka, who shot most of the film, the decision was made to leave the footage alone and completely replace the monologue.

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A nonsense piece. It starts with the fact that there are two butters in the fridge at home, one for the top and one for the bottom, and then for some reason it reminds me of the Moh-Roh-Ushi hot springs.

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As Godard said, a film is made up of "images and sound," but inevitably the images tend to be primary and the sound secondary. In order to break this and make the sound (in this case the words) the primary focus, I came up with the idea of ​​using footage shot with the lens removed.

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This is an 8mm film shot and edited from 1996 to 1999. There is no story development like a normal story movie, and the image of only the author = the hero like a diary movie continues. There are no lines. The heroine-like existence is a dingy female stray cat. Still, I tried to brew and elaborate how to make a movie time of about one hour, like walking a tightrope, but over a long period of time. As a reference motif, there is Isao Yamada's early work "Yomado". The title "Gootariputra" is not a word with a specific meaning, but is just a coined word of Lazy way of life.

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8mm short film by Mikio Yamazaki.

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Kajol is a star actress in Indian movies. I discovered a strange scene when I was watching a video of a movie she was in. In one scene of a musical, Kajol throws a dove into the sky, which then falls to the ground. This would not be OK on a Japanese movie set. So I thought about the differences between Indian and Japanese movies. By the way, I read in a book that there is a goddess of cinema in India. I guess she protects Indian movies. So, is there no god of cinema in Japan? Oh, but not of cinema, there is a god of dance. I started writing a screenplay with this goddess, Ame-no-Uzume, as the main character, but the Yatagarasu, the guide for nation building, fell to the ground, and the story ended happily.

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A self-produced feature film. The main character, an 8mm filmmaker, has a bronze statue of the goddess of 8mm movies in his home, and he always prays before filming, and when editing, he places it above the viewer to be watched over by the goddess. He is a devout believer who goes about his work. One day, the goddess appears in his dream, complains to him about the plight of 8mm film, and orders him to independently produce 8mm film.

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A wanderer and his son arrive on an obscure northern island of Japan, causing the village of Pu to fall into disarray.

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VTR video work. The whole story is a parody of Shuji Terayama and Shuntaro Tanikaws "Video Letter". Self-questioning about "meaning" and "myself" through video. What we end up with is a blue sky.

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A man stands in the city, holding a single red rose in his hand. He gets on the subway and places the rose on a street. The narrator explains that this fragment, which could not be completed as a story, continues to live on within him as narrative noise.

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A work in which a photo of the filmmaker flies through the sky and returns to a garden where there are photos of his family and his pets.

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Stop-motion footage of moving clouds and the passing of the sun.

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Using a flat microphone, Yamazaki attempts to auscultate various places in the city. The sounds of manholes, of which he recorded many, sound like the pulsation of a living thing.

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The original format is 8mm film (single8), and once the developed film is incompletely layered on the undeveloped film, it is projected onto a curtain swaying in the wind by shining light at an angle with a penlight. Created an effect.

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The event was held at Shakujii Park in Nerima Ward, Tokyo. As a new twist, I scribbled graffiti and put red star stickers all over the route in advance. Some of them were completely ignored, but others were photographed by several participants. Kamioka brought a radio, Oguchi a Rika-chan doll, and Kaneko a video camera with an LCD monitor. Suzuki also had his child captured on film in advance. But it was Ishii who excelled, shooting the same things as the other participants, but somehow standing out as the most beautiful. I thought that the goddess of 8mm film was smiling on him alone.

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A work in which a photo of the filmmaker flies through the sky and returns to a garden where there are photos of his family and his pets.

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In April 1985, I started to make a film with my friend Kamioka as the main character. But even after three months, the whole film was still unknown. I started to work alone with the camera. One day, the rabbit he keeps at home gives birth to a stillborn baby. As he buries her under a tree in the garden, it made me think of his father, who died the year before. He is no longer with us, but only the gaze he left behind. And so I set off on a journey. In a town in the Hokuriku region, he met a woman who once appeared in one of his films. When I dozed off on the train to Tokyo, she appeared to me in a dream and tells me that I will soon find the exit. Back in Tokyo, I told Kamioka that I'm going to start filming again. I came back into the room, turned on the microphone and pressed the flame against the lens.

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Unidentified people appear around the protagonist, Mr. M. No matter how many times he wakes up, he cannot escape from his dream. In a speeding, deserted subway, Mr. M falls asleep again. This is Yamazaki's second work in his filmography. Reflecting on the fact that his first 8mm drama, "The Melancholy of Poplar Trees," was less than a school play, he decided to make this film to see how much he could do within his own field of expertise. He unashamedly quotes various films, including Masanobu Nakamura's "Autumn in Beijing". An interesting precursor to his works " Anti-Interpretation" "Memories of the Seaside," and "Ghosttown at Dawn". This filmwork won the Student Encouragement Award at the 1980 Fuji 8mm Contest.

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