Jun'ichi Okuyama Movies

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

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, premiered at the Image Forum Festival in 2018.

The raw film (undeveloped) is placed in a hand-cranked projector and scratched and melted using an electric drill or soldering iron. The differences...

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, premiered at the Image Forum Festival in 2012.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

The mechanical roots of the film. It seems to be the mechanism of a sewing machine. I have in my hands the broken 8mm projector and 8mm film. And...

Live experimental film. Music played on a projector? The film is a string, and the projector itself is an instrument. Feel it on your skin and hear...

The ultimate visual expression lies in the development process. A darkroom, a dark room, the feeling of groping around. A buffer zone where developer...

A work that approaches the limits of time compression. Raw looped film. Super multiple exposure photography. People flow and the light flickers....

The film runs like the scenery seen from the train. The images flow, then stop, it starts moving again. A man and a woman meet. Colorful carp...

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

Created a paper film. This is a work that will be projected using a regular projector. The perforations are well opened. After all, it's paper. If it...

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

A 16mm wide film without perforations. I pull it by hand and send it off. If the speed is a little slow, you may slip. It melts from the heat of the...

At the screening venue, making a film while it's being projected. It is the {original live film}. Painting on a loop of snooker film, screening will...

The mood of the man on the left side of the screen (the artist himself) is captured in a long take, represented on the screen on the right, for...

This film was very delicate to process because of the static electricity that sucks up dust. The filmmaker wanted to keep on the screen a kind of...

After directing Kami eiga (Paper Movie in 1972, which used paper film), I ended up with a dead track with Kanko eiga (Sightseeing Movie of 1973)....

This work is a digital compilation of the 9.5mm One-Man Film Festival held in 2019. Now, 9.5mm has become a mythical format that most people are...