Directing

Hiroyuki Sekine

Born in 1957 in Tokyo, graduated from the Film Department of Tama Art Academy in 1981. Studied the possibilities of producing and screening individual films with Akira Hoshino and others at the school. His first film was Etude (1978), which was selected for the Pia Film Festival in 1982, and from around 1987 he began finding abandoned buildings in Tokyo and turning them into films. His works inclu…

Known For

A New Feeling of Something HappeningA New Feeling of Something Happening · 2002
A New Feeling of Something Happening
2002
Movie
A pair of men are picking and repeatedly enter houses here and there to steal. One day, while ransacking the house they have been picking, they find the girl who lives in the house collapsed in the bathroom. She is a college student who has been hurt by a love like a game that is about to end. When she gets up and sees the two thieves, she says, "You came to save me, didn't you? Will you stay with me forever?" For some reason, she interprets this favorably and trusts them. From that point on, a strange interaction between the three begins.
BEFORE DOZE OFFBEFORE DOZE OFF · 1998
BEFORE DOZE OFF
1998
Movie
Epilogue to Akira Hoshino's "Closed School Trilogy".
MAYAMAYA · 2001
MAYA
2001
Movie
A film about Maya Kanko Hotel [摩耶観光ホテル] in Kobe, known as one of the three most ruins in Japan. In this film, Sekine depict the building, which was built with a boat motif, as an “abandoned ship sinking into a mountain”.
SCENE 105SCENE 105 · 1982
SCENE 105
1982
Movie
PlatorinoPlatorino
Platorino
Movie
A diary film shot during the artist's honeymoon in Italy. While touring famous sightseeing spots, Sekine directed his gaze at sights, bugs, and buildings that are unfamiliar in Japan, but also creative not to show any people on the screen.
U・OU・O · 1992
U・O
1992
Movie
Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.
AKIHABARAAKIHABARA · 1991
AKIHABARA
1991
Movie
Experimental film by Hiroyuki Sekine.
Ruins of RoppongiRuins of Roppongi · 1992
Ruins of Roppongi
1992
Movie
An experimental film about the abandoned mansion that once stood in Roppongi. The mansion was originally built as the private residence of the businessman named “Ryoji Oda” [小田良治], but after his death, it was used as the Philippine Embassy. In this film, Sekine focuses his camera on the rotting furniture and a mummified cat, and uses 16mm found footage (the content of which is a documentary of traditional Philippine culture) discovered in the basement.

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