The Two-Headed Woman

One day, high school teacher Paul finds a puppy on the banks of the River Thames. It turns out to be the puppy of Her Majesty the Queen of the British Royal Family. This film was selected for the Oberhausen International Film Festival.

Original footage of a human dissection is inserted into electronic noise. The video blends the Psychic TV song "Je T'aime," a cover of the duet "Je t'aime moi non plus" by Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin, whispering words of love. Produced for the undergraduate program.

A young man murders his new bride and goes insane. He wakes in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.

Engram is a three-part piece revolving around a few good old ideas such as photos inside of photos, movies inside of movies, photos inside of movies, movies inside of photos, and (even) a film director inside a TV set.

Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" goes goth in Mari Terashima's screen adaptation of the children's classic. Terashima brings together Goth Loli performance troupe Rose de Reficul et Guiggles, doll maker Mari Shimizu and magician and actor Mame Yamada to create a macabre trip down the rabbit hole. The film appears animated, but the gothic characters are as real as can be.

A boy who shuts himself away in his green room longs for his mother, but his longing for her eventually leads him into a world of hopeless delusion and loneliness.

With a "Chinese Goth" theme, the gothic queen Mari and the lovely Rei appear on screen, full of charm! These two beautiful women will save the world!

A young girl lives in a Western-style mansion with a middle-aged man in a wheelchair. A boy is attracted to her sweet and innocent smile and tries to approach her. However, first love never comes true.

The heroine is played by Amane Kazama, daughter of Visual Brains, and the film also features dolls by Dollhouse Noah and regular artists Anran, Ochazuke Nori, Hisashi Kishida, Shoichi Motohara of MONT★SUCHT, and Mame Yamada.

This work, filmed in Berlin, was created in homage to Elis, the model for Mori Ōgai's short story "The Dancing Girl". Unter den Linden's townscape and the Berlin Zoo provide beautiful scenery.

In 19th century Europe, photographs of the “grotesque” such as deformed bodies and corpses were popular and enthusiastically traded and collected. In contemporary Japan, a video about voluptuous little Sayomi who loves to collect Mickey Mouse paraphernalia—how do people look at her as she sways to Baroque in a white negligee? Do modern-day cavaliers court her? Will her domineering mother save her from evil eyes? The director hands her the video camera and attempts to present the world through her perspective. She dresses her up in extravagance, shows off her glamorous presence, and proves that she is no sissy object or victim—she is larger than life.

An aged lady and his idiot manservant are secluded in a red chamber. The room has no clocks, and all day a ritual is held in the form of the grand dame's grumblings. Perhaps only a select few spectators may see the sublime in her. Suddenly, a portrait of a young woman disrupts her tedium, and the painting comes to life.

This work was produced with the cooperation of artists Katsuya Komagata, Miwa Yanagi, and performer Noriko Sunayama, and is full of artistic highlights.

Featuring two schoolgirls and a woman who appears to be their mother, this surreal piece of girlish dreaming translates the world of Midori Ozaki and Leonora Carrington's works into the visual world.

In a secluded corner of the world, there stands a chamber of sweet nectar, where the Mistress imparts the secrets of love to all who come. This room is easily accessible to all. But no one wants to enter it. One day, a young man finds himself drawn to it despite better knowledge. He has been reincarnated for thousands of years and now, finally, exists in this room at this moment. Pain has turned into sweet love, a kind of rooted love, and through it, he becomes one with the Mother, with himself, and with the universe.

An elderly madam and her maid live quietly in a Western-style mansion. Their individual fantasies gradually intertwine and blend together in this soft lesbian film.