Jun'ichi Okuyama Movies

For some eight years, Kaneko Yu followed Japanese avant-garde director Okuyama Jun'ichi, observed him making and showing his films, and collecting...

This is an experimental film about the anti-halation layer of film. Normally, the antihalation layer is not projected onto the screen, as it...

An infinite horizon line and the image of continuous waves... Experimentation with the vertical displacement of the image of a 35 mm film. 35mm film...

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, premiered at the Image Forum Festival in 2014.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

What is a frame? He attempts to make a film that doesn't have the normal 16mm frame. He also doesn't respect standard recording principles. Thus,...

Sky and earth. The image begins to move slowly. The sound of water moving in and out of the distance. The image begins to fluctuate, while rotating,...

Okuyama made a negative print from the original negatives. As opposed to the usual purposes of film, this negative projection allows us to reconsider...

For this film, Okuyama made a camera with two lenses. One of the lenses films the filmmaker from behind while the other films him from the front. He...

This work brings together undeveloped raw 8mm film.

Two rolls of raw film. I took a sandwich photo with paper tape What can be seen and what cannot be seen? What is captured and what is not captured?...

Watch the video! The image is flickering. The sound is choppy. The black dots are developer. The white spots are the fixer. I paint the developer and...

"Jun'ichi Okuyama is a cinedoer." Jun'ichi Okuyama plays making a film from the material and accidents that gradually disrupt the natural recording...

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

When you watch a film projected on a screen, the emulsion itself, which is a photosensitive emulsion, there's nothing to be conscious of. I like the...

This work is based on the theme of "cinematic time on film." Suddenly, I noticed the musical scale of the curtain hanging on the window in my room....

"Outrage" is a work for which I developed a reversible film using a negative-processing bath. While developing it, I used my fingernails to scratch...

Live performance using a hand crank projector presented at the retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker at the 2023 Image Forum Festival.

Here is one of the most legendary films by Japanese filmmaker Jun'ichi Okuyama. Recently screened at the 2023 Image Forum Festival, it was quite an...

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.