Umi Ishihara (UMMMI.) is an artist and film director based in Tokyo and London. She makes experimental narrative films and video installations that centre around love, personal memories, womanhood and wider societal issues. Her works have been exhibited by Centre Pompidou Film Festival Hors Pistes Tokyo, CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival exhibition, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019, and commissioned by the BFI/BBC.
Former gangsters, former homeless people, abuse victims, people struggling with the meaning of life... these hurt and lovable "sinners" gather at a Christian church in Kitakyushu that supports the needy. A documentary that intersects the passion play of Ch ...
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A film inspired by Italian author Cesare Pavese's novel called The Beautiful Summer ...
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"Janitor of Lunacy follows a young woman's descent into a digital wormhole via her obsession with a BDSM account run by an unknown user. The film examines social media's ability to acquire organicity whilst also distorting subjective reality." -UMMMI. ...
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Hikari is a newly expectant mother cohabiting with her boyfriend Taro. However, their relationship seems to be on the rocks. The couple has had trouble finding steady employment since graduating from college, and mounting financial problems further strain ...
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In a dystopian Japan, scientists have developed a new pill hailed as the ultimate forget-me-not. Although the miracle drug transforms society by warding off memory loss, it inexplicably has no effect on the narrator's mother, a patient with early-onset Alz ...
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"A couple with some issues has just moved into the town. Driving through the town, they saw many "weird" people from a car window. They began to wonder why they had decided to come to this place. They stepped in an old Chinese restaurant and...? This is a ...
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"Ummmi's Lonely Girl features a young Shibuya girl, sometimes she messes things up, sometimes she is sad or depressed but she lives her life for the fun moments. In these moments she can forget everything which has come before her in life. She needs these ...
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"This experimental melodrama follows Hikari, and her boyfriend Taro's visit to his family home. While there Hikari forms an unexpected relationship with Taro's auntie, Kyoto. As their relationship develops it becomes clear that Kyoko is struggling to contr ...
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"One day when surfing through the internet, a young women discovers an old blog from several years ago. She attempts to delete it but cannot remember the password. This film attempts to go beyond borders through mixing up personal areas of the Internet by ...
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"This work takes the form of a private home video, left unseen, which probes the relationship between love and suicide. Hinging upon Goethe's seminal novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, my monologue speaks of the events that transpired between my parents ...
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Footage from a party. The Smiths' song "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" is sung by the partygoers. ...
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"Whilst staying for 3 months in New York City in 2014, I noticed that the city had a unique presence of psychic stores. Seeing their signs on the streets reminded me of how my mother used to sell power stones, herbs and spiritual material in Tokyo. My ...
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"This installation piece explores the forewarning signs which occur before a defining event taking place. It develops through a mixture of documentary and scripted footages of my father, with texts related to my memory of him mixed into it. Since the Great ...
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"I made this video because my grandmother had erotomania. Erotomania is a type of schizophrenia where the sufferer can't distinguish between real life and one's own imagination life. One day my grandma suddenly said, "I had someone I truly loved when I was ...
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Night after night, two travellers cross paths at a university library. The library's symmetry, rhythms and recurrences form a fantastic geography for their stories and adventures. ...
Watch Now"Ummmi's Lonely Girl features a young Shibuya girl, sometimes she messes things up, sometimes she is sad or depressed but she lives her life for the fun moments. In these moments she can forget everything which has come before her in life. She needs these ...
Watch NowFootage from a party. The Smiths' song "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" is sung by the partygoers. ...
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