Jun'ichi Okuyama

What is a frame? He attempts to make a film that doesn't have the normal 16mm frame. He also doesn't respect standard recording principles. Thus, a distinction must be made between: - the real time during which he films the object (himself) through his camera. - the time the film is recorded. These two periods do not always correspond to real time. The image must illustrate the search for these different notions of time. To achieve this, he experiments and places a 16mm film on top of a 35mm film during the shooting.

Live performance using a hand crank projector presented at the retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker at the 2023 Image Forum Festival.

At the screening venue, making a film while it's being projected. It is the {original live film}. Painting on a loop of snooker film, screening will be held. Even now, sometimes, in 16mm, do a live performance. It is a long-lasting work.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, premiered at the Image Forum Festival in 2018.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

The mood of the man on the left side of the screen (the artist himself) is captured in a long take, represented on the screen on the right, for example, stroking a dog's head with your right hand. When the shot falls to the ground, the man on the left looks entranced. The calculated shots were taken separately for the left and right sides. It was completed without editing. The impressionable high school days symbolically depicted. It is a multi-part work divided into two parts. First film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, filmed in 1964 on 8mm (regular 8).

What is a frame? He attempts to make a film that doesn't have the normal 16mm frame. He also doesn't respect standard recording principles. Thus, a distinction must be made between: - the real time during which he films the object (himself) through his camera. - the time the film is recorded. These two periods do not always correspond to real time. The image must illustrate the search for these different notions of time. To achieve this, he experiments and places a 16mm film on top of a 35mm film during the shooting.

Live performance using a hand crank projector presented at the retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker at the 2023 Image Forum Festival.

At the screening venue, making a film while it's being projected. It is the {original live film}. Painting on a loop of snooker film, screening will be held. Even now, sometimes, in 16mm, do a live performance. It is a long-lasting work.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, premiered at the Image Forum Festival in 2018.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

The mood of the man on the left side of the screen (the artist himself) is captured in a long take, represented on the screen on the right, for example, stroking a dog's head with your right hand. When the shot falls to the ground, the man on the left looks entranced. The calculated shots were taken separately for the left and right sides. It was completed without editing. The impressionable high school days symbolically depicted. It is a multi-part work divided into two parts. First film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, filmed in 1964 on 8mm (regular 8).

Live experimental film. Music played on a projector? The film is a string, and the projector itself is an instrument. Feel it on your skin and hear it? It's a movie. W8mm film passes through a 16mm projector and uses an optical sound reproduction system to produce sound.

This is probably the last work of the legendary Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, presented in digital format in the retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker at the 2023 Image Forum Festival.

Watch the video! The image is flickering. The sound is choppy. The black dots are developer. The white spots are the fixer. I paint the developer and fixer directly onto the raw film. I produced this work with the slogan "Bring darkroom work to light". I approached the appeal of developing and fixing with my own unique aesthetic.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, premiered at the Image Forum Festival in 2012.

Live performance with two projectors. Human beings become shutters, if you flutter two fan in front of the lens. According to the movement, the eyes wink on the screen.

Camera and film inter-relate: the camera is massaged by the film at 24 frames per second, the film is massaged by the camera.

Sky and earth. The image begins to move slowly. The sound of water moving in and out of the distance. The image begins to fluctuate, while rotating, it will come off the frame. Everything swings. A moment when you just drop by. Installation and performance work.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, premiered at the Image Forum Festival in 2014.

A 16mm wide film without perforations. I pull it by hand and send it off. If the speed is a little slow, you may slip. It melts from the heat of the projector. The visuals are the melted footage was re-shot. It has an image of a multi-layered structure. Screening prints are only used once and then become trash. The original "disposable film."

Here is one of the most legendary films by Japanese filmmaker Jun'ichi Okuyama. Recently screened at the 2023 Image Forum Festival, it was quite an event, as it hadn't been shown since the 1970s.

A typical university study trip. The camera is the gun, the lens is the muzzle. While moving with this in mind I shot a lot 8mm continuously. Stop-motion documentary with a keen sense control the camera freely, swinging the timing to press the shutter subtly adjust to the subject and boldly change. It produced unique movements and images.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, premiered at the Image Forum Festival in 2011.

For this film, I followed the negative development instructions to the letter to develop a Super-8 positive. Osmography stems from the desire to create a new version of My Movie Melodies. The image overlaps with the soundtrack, and optical recording was used to reproduce the sound.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

The mechanical roots of the film. It seems to be the mechanism of a sewing machine. I have in my hands the broken 8mm projector and 8mm film. And next to it was a shiny, still-working 16mm projector. I was determined to immediately start projecting 8mm film. It is sewn onto the 16mm film using a sewing machine... The session between the sewing machine and the 16mm projector is about to begin.

"Outrage" is a work for which I developed a reversible film using a negative-processing bath. While developing it, I used my fingernails to scratch the emulsion. It was a monochrome film, but when I applied the fixative, the scratches turned yellow.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, premiered at the Image Forum Festival in 2013.

A work that approaches the limits of time compression. Raw looped film. Super multiple exposure photography. People flow and the light flickers. Real-time accumulated footage. It starts moving smoothly. This work also following "Touch of Inga", other than the production of raw film, from developing to producing screening prints. All processed in-house.

The fate of heavy smokers. The era is the Taisho era. A young man, while warming myself by the fire heavy smoking. Then, his chest instantly turned black. The fear of lung cancer creeping into the comical depiction. The author, a former smoker, dreamed the fate of smokers.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

This work is, just the shades of the raw film emulsion, a work that creates an image. Using the double emulsion technique, three-dimensional multi-layered raw film and it created a unique shadow. Production without taking or developing photographs. This is the ultimate experimental film because it is screened using the original raw film. At first, the emulsion surface of the film was milky white, with each projection, it gets burned and darkened. The impression of the work changes subtly each time.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

Live performance using a hand crank projector presented at the retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker at the 2023 Image Forum Festival.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

Okuyama made a negative print from the original negatives. As opposed to the usual purposes of film, this negative projection allows us to reconsider the various processes inherent in filmmaking.

Preserve your film by developing it yourself. The undeveloped part, the author calls it the Undiscovered Zone. Recently, in the live film work "Invasion of the Undiscovered Zone", the projectionist who screens this undiscovered zone, only an image of bliss. I learned this for the first time in my life. The images of the unseen zone can be seen through reflected light that is not projected onto the screen. The opposite of the screen it's a white image, watch it in one film, polarity reversal.

Live performance using a hand crank projector presented at the retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker at the 2023 Image Forum Festival.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

The film runs like the scenery seen from the train. The images flow, then stop, it starts moving again. A man and a woman meet. Colorful carp swimming gracefully. A view of castle walls with perforations. A miscellaneous and elusive image thread the screen. The image gave up movement and eventually began to dissolve... A work that I rediscovered projecting film.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama.

"Jun'ichi Okuyama is a cinedoer." Jun'ichi Okuyama plays making a film from the material and accidents that gradually disrupt the natural recording of the camera. It all starts and ends with the noise of the projector. Landscape sequences gradually undergo interference and rhythmic interruptions of one hand, of a reel in motion and then of a crack passing through the photogram from one side to the other, are all tangible signs of the presence of the filmmaker. The universe breaks up and recomposes in this back and forth between reality and its "in the movie" reflection.

Dancing man. A woman clapping her hands to the rhythm. Narrow down your theme communication between men and women rhythmically expressed. People's movements stripped down to the bare minimum, the start and end points of the movement. A composed work by just two photos. Inspired by cinematic expression before the birth of cinema, it was made using a simple method.