Mikio Yamazaki

Like a Heavenly Edge (2024)

The dialogueless journey of a carjacker, his young lover and the doll she created, in a world made of city ruins, blue dawns and red dusks. The film material was originally shot in 1998 on 8mm and later blown up to 16mm. Ever since, as the colour dyes fad ...

Deep Sweets Senior (2017)

One day, middle-aged man Estan meets Nui, a woman who has lived for 20,000 years. The mysterious journey of Nui and Estan begins, using arrowheads to collect the emotions of humans in the past. ...

Deep Sweets Junior (2015)

A short film made as a prologue part of "Deep Sweets Senior". ...

Associations of Silverpencils (2011)

This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and the personal film, and benefiting from the participation of multiple generations of cineastes, it is a ref ...

Palm Forest at Night (2011)

As part of the street observation work, I was working on collecting and arranging the number of the beast 666 in the city. Then, I realized that it was boring and decided to return to the drama for the first time in a while. Chepki, a woman who investigate ...

VIDA (2008)

VIDA, starring AV actress Hotaru Hazuki, is an erotic work aiming directly at the Hypothalamus. DEATH is an event that makes life emerge in a different language. ...

My Night Heart (2007)

8mm short by Yamazaki Mikio ...

Phantasmagoria: A Collection of Images Sealed in Darkness (2006)

This is the DVD version of the video event held at Loft Plus One in Shinjuku on September 10th, supervised by Chiaki Konaka. 5 presenters gathered with "truly scary films" they had discovered. The DVD includes "Home Movie", "Honeymoon", "Blue Film", "Psych ...

A Rautrec Alley (2005)

The concept of "Rest In Eternalism" was to closely examine and photograph the things I encountered while traveling, so I thought about what would happen if I tried photographing one place thoroughly. I focused on the alleys I had discovered during the film ...

Rest In Eternalism (2005)

Aiming to a tranquil yet raw energy. All of the footage was fixed using a tripod and the result was a series of inorganic objects that appear one after the other. ...

LetMeEndWithYou (2003)

FAR AWAY (2003)

No new footage was taken, and everything was spliced ​​together from previously shot 8mm film. When I've been shooting 8mm for this long, I often forget what kind of memories I've taken. When I took it out and looked at it in a viewer, I saw my friend, ...

Elis in Tears (2003)

This work, filmed in Berlin, was created in homage to Elis, the model for Mori Ōgai's short story "The Dancing Girl". Unter den Linden's townscape and the Berlin Zoo provide beautiful scenery. ...

SPILLING GOLDEN MOON (2002)

One shot from inside a moving car and the other showing a vague image of a boy and girl playing in a cluster of light spots spinning around like a galaxy. Accompanied by short monologues, cheap keyboard music and even the soundtrack of a scene from an old ...

AITAI (2002 Version) (2002)

The title is a combination of "I want to meet you" and "靉靆 (the flow of clouds, or a lens)". A kind of fake work using old film shot 10 years after its expiration date. However the "film you don't know who belongs to" that is inserted in the middle is ...

Filmletter★oufuku IV (1999)

GOOTARIPUTRA (1999)

This is an 8mm film shot and edited from 1996 to 1999. There is no story development like a normal story movie, and the image of only the author = the hero like a diary movie continues. There are no lines. The heroine-like existence is a dingy female stray ...

A Port in Vain (1996)

Dreamed Lion Dreaming (1996)

Kajol's Pigeon (1996)

Kajol is a star actress in Indian movies. I discovered a strange scene when I was watching a video of a movie she was in. In one scene of a musical, Kajol throws a dove into the sky, which then falls to the ground. This would not be OK on a Japanese movie ...

Ophelia's Favorite Books (1995)

A 3-Part Series for the imaginary girl's magazine Monthly Ophelia unveils the literary worlds of three female writers born in 1896. The Ophelia of legend who loses her life along the riverside is reborn and lives deep underwater. Reminisce about girlhood a ...

Pu (1994)

A wanderer and his son arrive on an obscure northern island of Japan, causing the village of Pu to fall into disarray. ...

Goddess of 8mm film (1994)

A self-produced feature film. The main character, an 8mm filmmaker, has a bronze statue of the goddess of 8mm movies in his home, and he always prays before filming, and when editing, he places it above the viewer to be watched over by the goddess. He is ...

100 years after (1994)

I Have No Myself To Desert (1993)

VTR video work. The whole story is a parody of Shuji Terayama and Shuntaro Tanikaws "Video Letter". Self-questioning about "meaning" and "myself" through video. What we end up with is a blue sky. ...

The Cat Night (1992)

V/M. Drifting (1990)

The original format is 8mm film (single8), and once the developed film is incompletely layered on the undeveloped film, it is projected onto a curtain swaying in the wind by shining light at an angle with a penlight. Created an effect. ...

Preparation to Take Off (1987)

Guiding Star (1987)

In April 1985, I started to make a film with my friend Kamioka as the main character. But even after three months, the whole film was still unknown. I started to work alone with the camera. One day, the rabbit he keeps at home gives birth to a stillborn ba ...

Robinson's Garden (1987)

Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery. She decides to move there, even further away from the ci ...

Born in the Mud (1986)

The Landroute Goes to the Bottom of Night (1985)

Chill point out period (1984)

So, what exactly were we doing with this work? To put it simply, we tried to see if we could do something similar to musical improvisation in film.In musical improvisation, some performers play instruments, others voice, and sometimes even dancers join in, ...

The World Lies Down in Scrap (1984)

Ghost Town at Dawn (1983)

Memories of the Seaside (1982)

It consists of two repeated images: a scene of cutting the back of a hand with a utility knife and blood oozing out, and another one of a man being slaughtered at the beach. ...

TBX (Noise Version) (1982)

PATINKO (1982)

8mm work from the 6th Pia Film Festival. ...

Fujica Single Green (2013)

A documentary on the Associations of Silverpencils screening hosted in Higashimurayama. The Film features 8mm films and interviews. ...

Associations of Silverpencils (2011)

This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and the personal film, and benefiting from the participation of multiple generations of cineastes, it is a ref ...

VIDA (2008)

VIDA, starring AV actress Hotaru Hazuki, is an erotic work aiming directly at the Hypothalamus. DEATH is an event that makes life emerge in a different language. ...

A Port in Vain (1996)

The Cat Night (1992)

Guiding Star (1987)

In April 1985, I started to make a film with my friend Kamioka as the main character. But even after three months, the whole film was still unknown. I started to work alone with the camera. One day, the rabbit he keeps at home gives birth to a stillborn ba ...