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.

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

Installation and experimental film performance by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, premiered at the Image Forum Festival in 2016.

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

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

Accumulated in cardboard, a pile of unused negative film, snapshots, student ID photos, etc. These were all shot for purposes completely unrelated to...

A typical university study trip. The camera is the gun, the lens is the muzzle. While moving with this in mind I shot a lot 8mm continuously....

"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...

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

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....

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

One of the last works of Japanese filmmaker Jun'ichi Okuyama.

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...

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

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

Preserve your film by developing it yourself. The undeveloped part, the author calls it the Undiscovered Zone. Recently, in the live film work...

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, premiered at the Image Forum Festival in 2011.

This work is, just the shades of the raw film emulsion, a work that creates an image. Using the double emulsion technique, three-dimensional...

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...

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...