Manal Issa, 2024
Filmed in September 2024, just before renewed bombardment in Lebanon, this film draws on long-distance conversations between the filmmaker and Manal Issa, an acclaimed performer in Beirut. Refusing...
Chang Gyeong
Changgyeonggung Palace is a space where the zoo, amusement park, and ancient palace overlap. Remembered as a childhood fantasy with a sense of unease, it becomes a layered image of animal suffering...
Koki, Ciao
This experimental autobiography is narrated by Koki, a long-lived parrot kept beside Marshal Tito, who ruled Yugoslavia for over 35 years. Drawing on four years of recordings and newly revealed state...
As I Lay Dying
Against unsteady handheld footage from Iran's 2009 Green Movement, a calm voice recounts the fates of protesters glimpsed in blurred frames. Urgency and street chaos flare, then freeze. Between...
Tokyo - Ebisu
The JR Yamanote Line is one of Japan's busiest railway lines, comprising 29 stations arranged in a continuous loop around central Tokyo at the time of filming. Shot clockwise from Tokyo Station...
45 7 Broadway
Set in Times Square, 45 7 Broadway captures the noise and constant motion of one of the world's most recognisable intersections. Using a colour-separation technique, the film was originally shot on...
Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon
The film depicts bridges along the Yahagi River, near where the filmmaker grew up in Japan. Each bridge was filmed twice on the same day — once in the morning and once in the evening. The image was...
Amusement Ride
Shot with a telephoto lens from inside a cabin of Cosmo Clock 21, a Ferris wheel in Yokohama, Amusement Ride presents a distorted view of its mechanical structure. Focusing on intermittent vertical...
Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke
Fireworks at a summer festival in Japan were filmed with a Super 16 format camera in order to record images directly onto the optical soundtrack area of the filmstrip. In 16mm projection, the optical...