All Films

A short parody of the classic tale "The Princess and the Frog".

A boy lives in an isolated world of fantasies. One day he meets an old man who has been condemned by his family to live in isolation due to a contagious disease. The two make a secret pact to make their dreams come true.

This year, I was asked about Toshio Yamazaki, and when I did a Google search, nothing came up. This is not good. Toshio Yamazaki has the same last name as me, but in the mid-1980s I was called "good Yamazaki" and Toshio was called "bad Yamazaki.” He suffered from schizophrenia, which caused him to become paranoid and often made aggressive phone calls. As a result, no one contacted him and he eventually died alone, but it took a long time to find him. So the manager of his apartment disposed of everything in his room and now most of his works are no longer in the world. Fortunately, this work, which was also screened at PFF, was saved on a 3/4-inch videotape from that time, and a memorial screening was held of a film that was dubbed onto DV. I will upload this material to YouTube with English subtitles. The original was supposed to be in color, but the color signal could not be restored, so it is in black and white, but black and white may be a better fit for this work. -Mikio Yamazaki

One man has built a little theatre which he can hold in the palm of his hand. It reveals a world of its own. Yet there remains one dream to be fulfilled: that some elephants will come to live in it.

A satirical transformation of popular fairy tale motifs.

About a poor fisherman, his greedy wife, and a wish-fulfilling talking crab.

About the lives and fates of the once famous Piltenes prāģeri band, the continuation of the traditions of rural musicians.

The cartoon consists of several mini-cartoons: "Liar" based on a poem by D. Kharms, about a boy who fantasized a lot and passed everything off as the truth, but no one believed him. "The Key" is based on a poem by O. Grigoriev, about an old grandmother who left a key at home, but her granddaughter did not open the door for her. "The Ball" is about a boy who dreamed of becoming a football player and therefore could not part with the ball.

Using music and images the history of the people of Glasgow set against scenes of demolition, unemployment and industrial wasteland.

As the title suggests, this video work could be a painting; metaphorically, we could say a painting about painting. The work dwells on change and growth; confronting the visual and auditory, pleasure and pain, movement and the fixity of the image.

Amateur film following a group of mountain climbers walking the snowcapped Aonach Eagach Ridge in Glencoe.

Commander in Chief reveals the true message behind the manufactured mediation of news and politics.

"You wish to recapture that state of consciousness."

One of my thoughts while shooting Forest of Bliss was to see and hear what poets might have to say about their surroundings. These scenes recount some of their thoughts.

Film playing with car headlights on a rainy evening, reflections of the moon in a puddle, all intermittently covered with a sinuous or more rectilinear, thin or thicker bleach graphic (on Kodachrome).

A little lamb is so proud of his new horns he cannot help but keep butting everyone he meets.

An accident with incalculable consequences triggers the "nightmare" of a pilot whose aircraft is carrying dangerous cargo.

Two characters separated by a deep gulf strive to build a solid bridge between the two sides.

This film is an odyssey through the eyes, words and music of individuals who pioneered Afro-Cuban music in the United States. The video offers a rich overview of a wide number of musical styles from "Cubop" to Salsa, Big Band to jazz, and of musicians from Chano Ponzo to Tito Puente and Desi Arnaz to Johnny Colon. It examines the significant role of women performers and contains interviews with Mario Bauza and Dizzy Gillespie as they reveal the parallel course of jazz with the "latin sound".

MYTHING : our eyes always have a great number of bodies to look at. They allow themselves to be caught by them. The more the clothes are beautiful and the more they play hide-and-seek with the bodies, the more the eye is caught. Our eyes indulge in that game of picturing, beyond or through an elusive body, what is most powerful in it : its nakedness. VIDEO STRIP doesn’t tell a story. It is simply about a body that separates from its clothes – or is it the reverse ? – and disappears as mysteriously as it had appeared. The clothes are the only thing left at the end, as if they were substitutes for the body. Their crumpling is the evidence that somebody wore them. They are the signs of a moulting, of the transmutation of a female body into nothing.

On the country road, he gets tired of being trampled by horses and carts and sets off to see where the world is going. After encounters with intercity roads, the main road, and the highway, it finally reaches the end each time— where the road begins. Then a small path appears, along which the man walks up— Charlie Chaplin's little tramp.

A structuralist self‑portrait that cycles repeated frames of Schillinger’s own body and face through generational processes (film to video back to film), using slow-motion and flickering grain to evoke and deconstruct the archetypal femme fatale image and female desire on her own terms.

A short documentary on the work of Soviet propagandists in the rural organizations of the Gomel region in Belarus.