I Am The One To Decide Your 1 Second 2001

A rite of passage for a mother by the filmmaker, who is told by her, "It's not me you want to film, it's your mother". It was a strange performance using an 8mm camera, performed only by the filmmaker and his mother. The image of the artist taken by his mother is confined to a single frame of film, which is blown up and multiplies endlessly, even filling the family home.

The Lake 2013

A hand with a camera emerges from a lake. This surreal scene is like a period in the personal correspondence between two Japanese filmmakers. In the director’s mind, the faded 8mm footage depicts artifacts that evoke phantoms of the past. But besides aimless wanderings through the streets of his hometown, a collection of photographs of a women’s wrestling team, or the handmade mask of Mexican superhero El Santa, the camera also shows its own image. In this experimental correspondence written with a camera instead of a pen, the central theme is one of mirrors and reflections representing the connection between subject and object, life and film.

GOODBYE GAZE 2018