|
Shibuya - Tokyo (2010, Japan, 16mm, sound, color, 10 min.) As a following sequence of Tokyo - Ebisu, this film shows the views around the exits of 20 stations in JR Yamanote Line, from Shibuya Station to Tokyo Station clockwise. |
|
Tokyo - Ebisu (2010, Japan, 16mm, sound, color, 5 min.) JR (Japan Railway Company) Yamanote Line is one of the Japan's busiest lines, consisting of 29 stations and running as a loop. The film shows the views from the platforms of 10 stations in Yamanote Line, from Tokyo Station to Ebisu Station clockwise. The in-camera visual effects and the layered soundtrack may exaggerate the sense of the actual locations, while suggesting the equipments that were used for capturing the audio and visual. |
|
Lumphini 2552 (2009, Thailand, 35mm, 1.37:1, sound, b&w, 3 min.) Images were shot entirely with Nikon F3, a still camera, at Lumphini Park in Bangkok, Thailand. The hand-processed visual shows the organic patterns found in the monumental park, constructing the systematic yet emotional rhythms and paces on the screen, accompanied by the sound from the visual information on the optical soundtrack. Lumphini is named for Lumbini, a Sanskrit word of the birthplace of the Buddha in Nepal, and 2552 is the Buddhist year (Buddha Era) of 2009. |
|
16-18-4 (2008, Japan, 35mm, 1.37:1, silent, color, 2.5 min.) This film was shot with a still camera with 16 lenses, which takes a series of 16 pictures consecutively within a few seconds, working similar to a movie camera or a device that Eadweard Muybridge used to shoot a horse galloping. The camera exposes 16 shots in two rows on the area of two regular 35mm frames. The film shows an event at Tokyo Racecourse, when it was holding the biggest race of the year, Japanese Derby (Tokyo Yushun) in 2008. The excitement of each race lasts about 2 minutes and 30 seconds in this racecourse. |
|
Into the Mass (2007, US, dual 16mm projection, silent, color, 6 min.) Images are originally shot by two super 8 cameras, capturing the side views of me riding a bicycle, from Marin County to San Francisco. The dual projection shows new landscape of photogenic city. The ride ended after joining "Critical Mass," an event occurs every last Friday of a month in San Francisco. |
|
Sketch Film #5 (2007, US, Super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, 3 min.) All images had been shot at the site of Marin Headlands County in California. The footage shows the nature in the area, as well as historic buildings originally built for the US Army, including batteries and the Nike Missile Site. |
|
Sketch Film #4 (2007, US, Super 8, silent, 18/24fps, color, 3 min.) My first Sketch Film on color film, Kodachrome, thinking if our visual perception would blend colors and recognize colors that are not in a single frame. The film was sent out to Dwayne Photo for processing. |
|
Sketch Film #3 (2006, US/Japan, Super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, 3 min.) It starts with a series of paired images, a blurred image with diagonal camera movement followed by the same image with static shot. Later, it shows my challenge to produce the apparent depth on the screen by rotating an apparent shape. |
|
Market Street (2005, US, 16mm, silent, b&w, 5 min.) All images were filmed on Market Street, one of the main streets in San Francisco. I studied Sketch Film #1 and Sketch Film #2 as reference to make the structure of this film. The visual was carefully composed frame by frame, while shooting on the street. This project was commissioned by Exploratorium and San Francisco Arts Commission for the outdoor screening event, A Trip Down Market Street 1905/2005: An Outdoor Centennial Celebration. Exploratorium released a DVD, Trip Down Market Street 1905/2005, which includes Market Street, is available through online stores: Exploratorium and Microcinema International. |
|
Sketch Film #2 (2005, US, Super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, 3 min.) This is the second Sketch Film. It shows my study especially in apparent shapes – a shape that cannot be found in a single frame, but it appears on the screen as an illusion. |
|
Sketch Film #1 (2005, US, Super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, 3 min.) As a painter carries a sketchbook, I carry a super 8 camera and do single-framing as an everyday exercise to sharpen my filmmaker's eye, making animations by forms found in the public space, regarding the apparent shapes and movements. The entire film was edited in camera, and it was hand-processed. |
|
Apollo (2003, US/Japan, 16mm, sound, b&w, 6 min.) Having Julie Murray as my advisor, I made this film for my senior thesis project at SUNY Binghamton. Combining photogarm, contact & optical printing and other filmmaking methods to create visual and sound to make a piece that shows my interest in materials, process and apparatus of cinema. |
|
Venezuela (2002, Venezuela, Super 8, silent, 18fps, color, 5 min.) During the winter of 2001-02, I travelled through Venezuela for a month with my tent and super 8 camera. This film shows my interest in montage, regarding motion & graphic continuity. |
Go back to main page |