Editing

Kiyoki Uchida

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Editing

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SF, B-movie horror, superhero, kung fu action.... The movies of Kiyoki Uchida, enrolled in the Kawaguchi Art School of Waseda University, are inlaid with the essence of a variety of movie genres. Uchida first became interested in movies in junior high school. Due to his grandfather, who ran a camera store, Uchida had spent much time in a dark room since childhood. Before long, his interest shifted from photographs to movies, and he began to harbor a yearning for science fiction films such as Star Wars and Back to the Future. Once he moved on to high school, Uchida established a movie club, and began immersing himself in the world of making his own movies together with friends. At first, Uchi…

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This work is a confession of the genre of video-through horror docs and its terminal situation. In a bleak location, the film expresses the resignation and apathy of young people

Industry to cash ghosts

2017

A fight breaks out between the “judenchi-ningen” (rechargeable human), a cyborg designed to fight global warming; an alien; and scientists. Shot in 8 mm, it is an ambitious film fully ensconced in Uchida’s world. The film has analog treatments applied throughout, including purposeful film damage to add in laser beams and coloring in red using permanent marker. VHS, 2006.

MAD☆VOGUE

2006

8mm short by Kiyoki Uchida.

Contemporary MV

2014

Behind the camera