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Rei Hayama

Rei Hayama

Rei Hayama started filmmaking since 2008, after many thoughtful experiences among wildlife at the unique environment in her youth. She studied at Department of Moving Images and Performing Arts, Tama Art University. She has been try seeking the harmoniousness between human and others(animal,wildlife,nature) mainly through film and video works with sound, a poetic writings and symbolical images such as recorded body action. Currently she lives in Japan, and doing screenings and exhibitions at various locations such as film festival, art museum and gallery internationally. In 2016, her work had been screened at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography(Tokyo), MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE(New York), Tromsø International Film Festival, etc. (www.lightcone.

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Movies Made By Rei Hayama (26)

Dormant Soil/Concrete Reflections (2021)

Dormant Soil / Concrete Reflections is the answer to a poem by Kim Hyesoon entitled "Haeundae Texas Queen Kong". Produced at the start of the pandemic, Zai and Rei explore the personal effects and thematic resonance of the poem as they travel around their ...

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They Can Be Seen From A Distance (2019)

A video sketch at Hayama's bed, situated in Bangkok. ...

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The Pearl of Tailorbird (2018)

The essence of "The Pearl of Tailorbird" lies in the fortuitous poetry generated through the process of multiple translations – avian to human, phonetic to semantic, textual to visual – in which the latent porosity of language helps give birth to multi ...

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Dreaming In The Dark (2018)

For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema's capacity to transform relationships between the body and the camera to propose works that will engage with both perception and embodime ...

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On the collinear and reflected on the water (2018)

The filmmaker talks about what she sees while she's staring at the projected image of a face of the caged Emu (bird), which is one of a filmmaker's own archive shot by herself at the zoo. In one moment, there's a drop of tear falls from the eye of emu. Eve ...

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1/8 (2017)

Comparing the number of photoreceptor cells in eyes of human and hawk, hawk has about 8 times more photoreceptor cells than human. The title of the film is about human eyes. Figure of flying bird in sky as a small black dot is the intimation of things that ...

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IN SEARCH OF COLOUR (2017)

While keep continuing the silent conversation with Goethe's "Theory of Colours", I went toward the nature of Slovakia, a landlocked country of east europe. Various living things, natural caves which hides the overwhelming space in its inside, and the sun. ...

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On Generation and Corruption (2017)

Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between light and darkness. Entirely composed of superimposed images of Tokyo's landscape and water sites, the film ta ...

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Space Noise Calling (2016)

Rei Hayama collaborated with Takashi Makino's "Space Noise", and there this "Space Noise Calling" was made. Hayama introduced an old rotary phone to the performance, which is disconnected and the microphone is built-in. Whilst the bells of the disconnected ...

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The Picture from Darkness (2016)

Takashi Makino's collaboration with Derek Jarman regular Simon Fisher Turner. Taking its starting point as Jarman's blindness after the completion of BLUE. ...

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SOME SMALLNESS COMING FROM LAND (2015)

The story flowing under this film has certain parallels to the theory of bird's hibernation and transformation advocated by Aristotle which is already dated today. In the land, ash snow is falling. The land's flag is fluttering in the blowing wind. And the ...

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Inaudible footsteps (2015)

Footsteps of horses and sheep. I run to the forest in a hurry. But I never reach to the forest of my destination. I'm remain in the original place, the place before the tale. After the destination (forest) disappears gradually, aimless footsteps are left o ...

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The knot of meridian (2015)

One day, one moment, there the forest has its own time. The place without meridian. The empty place. The place without human. The place has been thought as "forest" in our memory. This suspense film of forest was shot in the small forest which gets even sm ...

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land (2015)

The film inspired by the landscape of Friesland, the north part of Netherlands. The flatness of horizon, the history of fought with water suggests us a sense of "Wall" between human and nature. ...

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still life composition 'an accompaniment for life' (2015)

Artificial flowers and plants are kept changing its composition. An imitation of shapes of life, water drops, light from rechargeable hand light, endless accompaniment (climb every mountain.) The scenery reminds tiny grave or a small funeral for dead anima ...

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Reportage ! (2015)

A single take of a model of a Japanese home burning down, captured on hand-cranked 16mm film that was processed in coffee instead of traditional chemicals. ...

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THE FOCUS (2013)

Film THE FOCUS is constructed from rephotographed images collected from old pictorial books of volcano, nomad's culture, war , mountains, some texts and simple color screens that are inserted between images. Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "The Earth's H ...

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Waves Burning in Wheat Color (2013)

Song written and produced by Sokif Vocals by Calu (Matryoshka) ...

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INITIAL VAPOR (2012)

The origin and the end of the world is portrayed by weaving fictitious landscapes of diorama set and the lighting effects into the actual landscapes of 2012 Tokyo. The film is like an old diary. ...

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Generator (2012)

Takashi Makino's source of inspiration, our place in the world and the universe, never seems to dry up in view of the never-ending flow of immersive films. Generator may well be the earthiest of his films so far, made as a reaction to the Fukushima disaste ...

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Their Bird (2012)

The film about human who visits a forest. Observing the existence of human who has to go back to their home, through the experience of the pretend game of being a bird. ...

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Emblem (2011)

16min, 2011, shooting format: 16mm film, screening format: HD, col ...

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Cinema of Stuffing (2010)

The film was shot in a actual scenery left in the urban life. The leading character, one human (a girl), picks up a small package and opens it. She finds another package inside, so she opens it again. There is bigger package inside.... She opens it again a ...

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A Child Goes Burying Dead Insects (2009)

The repeated sequence of "a girl appearing in the woods, burying dead insects and then leaving" is made without a camera. With each repetition, the film images are broken down and the color is fading. The girl is performed by the filmmaker herself, channel ...

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A.D.A.M. (2014)

The expansiveness of empty landscapes that call attention to their subtle forms in a dynamic macro-perspective, and densely built urban ensembles combined with fragments of dry instructions and inconspicuously urgent communications to create a reserved fic ...

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