Ichiro Sueoka

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

This film is based on a decomposed footage entitled "the president of the hospital's funeral" which was made by anonymous cineaste in Kyoto, 1937.

Old Super 8 footage is made into a new film.

The film is based on the impression after reading "la maladie de la mort" by Marguerite Duras, and added to, with other text, pictures and allegories. Through these movies I try to symbolically express the relationship (and lack of understanding) between males and females.

"This is one of my recently series work, "re-interpretation for the private films" which has been created from old home movies. This film cited an anonymous film of a Venice sightseeing tour which was shot pre-war; A film where someone who does not know the place recorded a scene of a "sinking" city. Then I felt any film might disappear in the history." -Sueoka

The film is one of my recently series work, "Re-interpretation for the private films" which has been cited from old home movies. A Japanese diplomat, Mr.A.O. started for his assignment to Berlin since 1929. He was also the person fascinated by filmmaking. Of course, generally said his films were just the "Home Movie", however when we saw his films carefully, we could be found out the sensibility of other filmmakers in 20s, just like Ruttmann, Vertov or so. I'd like to observe the lost films.

"This film was based on a footage from anonymous cineaste who lived in Donetsk, Ukraina. 5mins, 16mm film, colour, sound, 2012." -IS

12th April 1931, an amateur cineaste who lived in Kyoto went to see a huge festival, SENSHOKU-SAI (festival of Dyeing and Weaving).

"SIN" means the city of Singapore. This film was based on a footage that described a typical travelogue in 70s in Japan.

Experimental short by Ichiro Sueoka.

(5mins 16mm film B/W sound 1994)

In 1931, the Japanese-Americans enjoyed a spring sports day, conforming to the custom of the mother country. J. Tanaka who was a hotel manager in Portland city recorded the event while chasing his daughter. For him, the every event of Japanese-American people was the important topic that he should have recorded. We can see a lost happy time in this film. However I felt any film might disappear to the history.

(1min. b/w silent 2003)

This is one of the Sueoka's recent series of works, "Reinterpretation for the Private Films" which has been cited from old home movies. The original film was not only describing poetically short summer in Germany 1931, but it was recording lost Germany in pre-war days.

"DOK" means the city of Donetsk, Ukraine. In 1980, it was a day of the anniversary. They were celebrating their Republic establishment. This is one frame of the peaceful day.

"Fishing Miserere", Super8, 12mins,1996

"A combination of Paul Sharits and Orson Welles in a crime drama that takes place in a series of rapidly changing images and illusive movements that create misleading expectations of the scene's climax."

Sueoka is an artist who creates new works with found footage, and develops the film stock himself. In this work, he uses The Wizard of Oz. By repeating the famous musical number “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” over and over, it deconstructs standard narrative style and shifts to a different mode of filmic experience.

This homage to Ernie Gehr's famous film, working with movement and spatial illusions through the use of quick edits, becomes a physical experiment of its own, with the length of shots determined by the intensity of the sense of motion.

Experimental short by Ichiro Sueoka.

A film by Ichiro Sueoka.

Super 8, 1997.

Experimental short by Ichiro Sueoka.

"My name is Aziz Shakhar. I had studied the law for two years at the Cairo university. Now I'm living in Amman, Jordany..." A footage which I picked up to cite was one of a "pre-text". In this film, I tried to make a metric film just like a 60-70's structural film. I assumed the film as a set of serialized footage on time. Systematic re-editing made us new meanings and images itself.

A film with, reportedly, no sprocket holes or edge lettering present (without, of course, dirt particles also appearing).