All Films

The director tries to understand the mysteries of the Tarot cards. In a restaurant, she and Marcus Vilar talk, in French, about the making of the film. In another scene, always in French, the director says she is unsatisfied with the research. Image from the book Jung and Tarot. Punk couple in London.

Working "in film," interweaving projected parts of the film, the filmmaker approaches a memory and repeatedly indicates how the seeing and the seen are cyclically superimposed in the image. A fast drive, a road cuts through the man's silhouette. The gaze advances through a young forest, following a woman from above who soon reveals her calm, bright face from up close, alternating with that of the man. We advance slowly down a hallway, the woman's face in double exposure. Viewed in close-up, a row of lamps creates sections and perspectives. Hovering lights appear in succession. Steps and a pumping pulsation lead to a car ride, while the white section of the sky bleaches the woman's image.

35mm experimental short film.

The silhouette of a man takes a few steps away from the camera, 'into' the image. His back is to the audience as he seemingly stares into the same view that we, the audience, see around him. There he stands, partially obscuring the image that is now projected over him. His body is almost still in contrast to the jerky, handheld footage which was filmed walking through what appears to be a cemetery. A second scene takes us down a long (underground?) corridor illuminated by strip lights. Throughout the film, the camera is in constant motion, penetrating forward, at times looking out from a moving vehicle. The sound we hear could simply be that of a running projector, but in combination with these murky images, a more ominous, foreboding atmosphere is implied.

The camera enters the "Sunayama Ginza" shopping district in Hamamatsu. The people in the area, the signboards for the "eradication of night butterflies," etc., are recorded in an unhurried manner. Suddenly, however, with the voice of the artist saying, "No more deception," the camera stands in the middle of a rainy intersection. As if to say, "This is my expression," we can feel the artist's fresh breath.

Two girls fail the entrance exam to a public high school and are forced to enter an all-girls school. A slapstick comedy about two girls who make a bet to see who will get a boyfriend first. The daily lives of the girls are depicted in an amusing manner, almost in a dotsuki manzai style. The sheer energy of the "life-sized girls," played by the author herself, breaks through the fiction of the story, and the dynamism of their bodies and words is very refreshing.

On a hot summer day, a camera climbs up a tree after hearing the unusual cicada cry, and catches a duel between a cicada and a praying mantis. Not wanting to miss the moment, the camera clung desperately to the tree, trying to get as close to the target as possible. The camera's breath is vividly conveyed on the screen of the same recording, and along with the tragic cries of the cicadas that have fallen prey to the mantis, we are forced to experience three minutes of tension. At the end, the artist's bloodied leg is painful.

In a district of Niamey, in Niger, craftsmen and consumers save all that is possible and "make new with the old."

Mixed-media installation with tape slide. An examination of the historical legacies of the British Empire and the impact of these legacies within the contemporary context.

A bear tries to catch a fly with disastrous results.

Integrates footage from Fritz Lang's 1926 Metropolis with choreographed movements by Jonathan Hollander and his dancers. Constructivist music composed by Varese, Mossolov and Honneger complements and heightens the special effects used in the production.

Short film by Shin Harada, Single-8, produced in 1985. This work was produced under the condition of a 3-minute frame for the exhibition of the event "First Pictures Show" in the Department of Imaging, Osaka University of Arts.

Featuring the following pieces: Self Portrait, Popcorn, As I Said, Skippy Peanut Butter Jars, Childhood Logic, Variance 3, Feedback, Voice, Trees. Soundscapes on many of the films were made in collaboration with Mimi Shevitz.

This U-matic video incorporates a number of frequent images from Wada's oeuvre: a camera advancing down a colonnaded pedestrian walkway beneath an elevated train line, the figure of a woman with her back to the camera retreating down a street toward a vanishing point by walking or running, and various seascapes. These scenes are spliced together in seemingly random order, sometimes inserted into each other or reshot through close-ups of video monitors. At times the footage is so heavily mediated and re-mediated that images blur into shadow and light, disappear into CRT phosphor dots, or shift hues and patterns from oversaturation and noise. A soundtrack by Hideki Yoshida accompanies the entire sequence, featuring echoing electronic patterns and long tones interspersed with ambient sounds of traffic and beachfront waves. This work was first screened at the Worldwide Video Festival in the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, the Netherlands, in 1986.

Documentary on 4AD Records in-house design firm, 23 Envelope. Run by designer Vaughn Oliver and photographer Nigel Grierson, they were responsible for the "Look" of classic 4AD bands like Dead Can Dance, the Pixies, This Mortal Coil, etc. This film features Vaughn and Nigel interviewed in the 4AD offices, along with interviews from Ivo Watts-Russel, Robin Guthrie, and more. Along with plenty of video footage from 1980s-era 4AD bands.

1730: shortly after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, women refusing to abjure Protestantism are imprisoned in the Tower of Constance. Among them, Marie Durand, who would later become an icon of the Huguenots. All these women consumed by loneliness, illness and fear cling to only one idea: to resist.

In the Footsteps of Taytacha follows a group of Quechua-speaking musicians and dancers as they leave their remote villages high in the Andes Mountains of Peru and join thousands of other highlanders on the annual religious pilgrimage to the sacred peaks of Qoyllur-Rití. Quollur-Rití, the largest and most important religious ritual in the southern Andes, occurs only five days out of the year and involves walking both day and night in terrain over 4400 meters in altitude.

A recreation of Andy Warhol's studio, Factory.

At 26, Abraham Ravett learned that his mother had previously been married and lost her family at Auschwitz, including his 6-year-old half-sister, Toncia. Half Sister is a cinematic amalgam of memory and imagination, inspired by Ravett's conception of a life that would have been.

Short film directed by Lilo Mangelsdorff.

The filmmakers follow composer and conductor Gustav Ernesaks before and during the final concert of the 20th Song Festival.

Hai Li Bu saves the daughter of Mountain God. She gives him a nut, so he can understand animals' languages but is not allowed to tell, or he will be punished. One day he hears animals talking about a coming disaster, what will he do?

Short educational film by Vladimir Kobrin.