Movies

Right there in that little gap between fantasy and reality, me and you, movies and videos, concrete and abstract, is that nice cozy space.

The borderland between sleeping and waking is the moment when the daughter melds into her father.

We go to sleep in hopes for a better tomorrow. The moment of truth nears as our eyes slowly open to the new day…

This story is about a place long ago, before birth and before death, that everyone knows and no one knows.

Far away from her hometown, the little fox studies in a foreign country. The monotonous days and bare relationships make her increasingly homesick....

TV shows, manga, music, movies, plays, pop stars and cartoon characters. I watch videos on my phone with the TV blaring and music in the background....

Bloopers in sports are different from the blunders we make in everyday life but they tend to share similar physical movements. The title comes from...

This work is based on 15 years of entries in the diary that I’ve kept since age eight. Through creating this work I was searching for freedom...

The girl wished to transcend her own body and become a jellyfish. She was drawn to the figure of the jellyfish floating freely in the sea.

"Someday, this will end. I hate it. I wanna live forever," murmurs a girl over and over again. Does she repeat the same moments, or does she move...

It's summer vacation and all the kids in the neighborhood have left to visit relatives. But there in the relentless glare of the sun, is a boy...

A white lump appears at a landfill site with an ocean view and slowly heads for the sea. It is anxious to find a place to return.

Things are kind of crappy right now. In Japanese, we say "hanakuso (nose snot)" instead of crap, though. Here's a dose of hope and giggles.

There are three "Motifs". The complete differences between them make themselves self-doubt. The melody begins, and the music motif could not resist...

Yasu is a cat over 20 years old. He's still alive and kicking in the house he was left behind.

This video installation is an experiment that imagines the canvas as a box and animates images within that space.

Reminiscing the days I spent with an old friend, facing up to the narrow but deep gap that lies between us.

My older brother and I became separated on a mountain crawling with eerie insects. I was taught that family should stay together no matter what, so I...

Only separated heart grows big without knowing it. Eventually self swelled something almost swallowed himself to disappear. Chaff failed to make a...

A donkey has grown old and weak after having worked for [a] human being for a long time. Realizing his prime time has passed, the donkey decides to...