Lost Way

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.

Collective experimental film by Team 8mm TENGOKU.

A documentary on the Associations of Silverpencils screening hosted in Higashimurayama. The Film features 8mm films and interviews.

Second film of Akira Hoshino's "Closed School Trilogy".

Shot in Venice by the sea at night, struck by a thousand lights.

First film of Akira Hoshino's "Closed School Trilogy".

Experimental 8mm short by Akira Hoshino.

Experimental film by Team Anadoruna (Akira Hoshino with Hairo members).

The oldest surviving work by Hoshino. A short drama about three young men and one girl. Rather than remaining confined to the typical image of youth often found in student films, it is filled throughout with experimental attempts, revealing the early seeds of ideas that would later connect to Hoshino’s subsequent works. A playful and pop-infused piece that strongly evokes its era.

8mm short film by Akira Hoshino.

Epilogue to Akira Hoshino's "Closed School Trilogy".

Experimental 8mm short by Akira Hoshino.

8mm film by Akira Hoshino.

Kenji Onishi short film time-lapse projection at YIDFF 2013 (Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival).

Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of the day together before Jesse has to again leave for a flight. They are both in relationships now, and Jesse has a son, but as their strong feelings for each other start to return, both confess a longing for more.

An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.