Instability of the Signal (2024)
Film of Simon Fisher Turner's new album, Instability of The Signal, directed by Japanese filmmaker Isao Yamada. ...
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Yamada Isao was born in Hokkaido, 1952. He joined an experimental theatrical troupe “Tenjo Sajiki” of Terayama. He took charge of art and costume designs in Terayama’s movies. His first film “Subaru no Yoru” (Night on Pleiades) (1977) won a prize at Off-theater Film Festival (later the name changed to Pia Film Festival). Until now, he has made over 100 movies, mainly 8mm films. With motifs of the borderline between reality and dream, he draws pictorial world of nostalgia. The images with his unique world view have attracted critics worldwide, and some of his works are archived in foreign art museums and universities. He is also a cartoonist and book designer.
Film of Simon Fisher Turner's new album, Instability of The Signal, directed by Japanese filmmaker Isao Yamada. ...
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A short version of the 3-hour-long film for the exhibition featuring a film installation and photographic works based on Yamada ongoing 81-reel Super-8mm work of the same title. Yamada has been working on this film project consistently since 2015. ...
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In the winter of 1922 (Taisho 11), a poet and social activist Nakahama Tetsu returned from a wandering journey to reunite with Furuta Daijiro and other comrades. They organized an anarchist organization "Guillotine Society" dreaming of revolution. For thei ...
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Eerie images of landscapes after the Fukushima nuclear disaster shot on black and white 8mm. ...
Watch NowExperimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm). ...
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Color short film shot in 8mm by the Japanese Isao Yamada, filmmaker, visual artist and manga author. ...
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A young man is on an inner journey as he searches for meaning in love, eroticism and marriage. He boards a train, and all the clocks are mirrored from then on, as if looking at them from the inside. He travels to a homey village, meets a potential fiancée ...
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Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm). ...
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Dreams, signs, fragments, margins, letters, one could also add love and memory to the list. My enchanted kingdom is filled with real aimlessness. The more the better. All that is left behind after it has disappeared is quiet. In the end I feel there hasn' ...
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Experimental work by Isao Yamada (Color, 8mm). ...
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A young geologist is traveling by train to visit his sister in the countryside after having received a mysterious letter from her. ...
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Crystal unfolds as a series of evocative, non-linear vignettes where fleeting images and sensations merge into a meditation on memory and time. A solitary figure moves through shifting urban and natural landscapes—fragments of childhood recollections, dr ...
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Why do people wave their hands when they say goodbye? We embarked on a dream journey from Borges' The Circular Ruins. Filmed in 16mm by the Japanese Isao Yamada, filmmaker, graphic artist and manga author. ...
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Akira is haunted by a "bouncing ball" song that he remembers his mother singing when he was a small child, and now on the verge of a sexually active adulthood, he wants to find the origins of the song. The young man ostensibly wanders into a time-warp in w ...
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In the midst of a match, a successful boxer - Hayato, has had enough of the sport. He lets himself get knocked, quits boxing, leaving his wife and start living alone with his mangy dog. One day a young mediocre boxer knocks at the door and wants to be Haya ...
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A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan. ...
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