The Summer I was Four

Japanese stars screaming: War!

Memory and reincarnation. The catalog and the anthology is an essential aspect of the art of Ando. His memories are assembled an oblique self-portrait. Ando explores his room and admits that he loves the goods correspond to an image of himself. He suggests that the objects once owned turn. They are associated with memories, and can be juxtaposed.

A university professor decides to go for a tour in Akihabara, guided by a young woman dressed up like a French maid. As they both walk through the streets of modern Tokyo, the man and the young woman gradually speak of a past they both share, and ultimately a painful love triangle that continues to haunt them. A poetic rumination in love, memories and loss told almost entirely with split screens.

A young woman returns to her birthplace for an ex-classmate's funeral. She and a friend lose themselves in melancholy.

Unhappy farm worker Mei borrows some money from her boyfriend Seng, boards a ship to Japan and leaves him broken-hearted. But when she is deported, it is Seng that greets her at the harbour for a night of bitter reflection.

A gay poem, clearly inspired by Cocteau, about the ambiguous relationship between a man and his two adopted sons. A meditation on sublimation, repetition, and death. The characters' images and movements are faint, but the mood is sensual.

Futaro, now 14 years old, is an only boy. His mother, an actress, raised him on her own. She herself is innocent, just like a child. It seems almost incredible to Futaro that she was brought him up by her self. One day, in the garden, Futaro seems a man dressed like a samurai. He must be one of mother’s actor friends, Futaro thinks, but then he resembles Futaro’s father. The stranger is called Kusanojo. He was a true samurai and now he is a true ghost. Strangely, Kusanojo seems to have forgotten the fact that he is a ghost. A strange life of 3 people with Futaro, his mother and his father who is a ghost starts.

A conceptual film in which Ando has assembled plans, and duration of his friends as they are listed in the address book. This is a gallery of happy friends of the filmmaker.

The whirl of the dance is like a reincarnation. From time to time, the dancer sits down to drink tea. But when the music starts, the waltz recalls.

An experimental film in which a young man chases the shadow of love in a dream-like world of childhood memories.

He pulls out a pair of scissors that tends toward the sky. So begins his journey through time, space and memory. Seasons change, years pass. Wrapped in a mysterious box of sunset, the boy grows older, becomes adolescent, young man, adult, old, but - strangely - the memories are beginning to lead their own lives. "What memory, what reverie, what is real and what is imaginary? I do not know ... "

Daryn, a seventeen-year-old girl, fed up with her life in a greenhouse, ran into a human smuggler and learnt the way to escape the town. She had not known at the time that this plan would change her life and those around her in the worst way possible.

The illusion of the present-day with the time signal. Prix d'or 1971, APA Film Festival, Tokyo.

Time. In HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE, Gabriel Garcia Marquez describes a long process a year it takes to cross a railway station. The film consists of an image of a train crossing a bush in the garden Ando. The film was shot from the same angle fixed for six months, through the seasons.

Space. Inspired by photographs of Winston Link (Night Trick), this film is composed of images of trains passing by a house. Trains are seen from inside the house in a variety of viewing angles. The film lists all possible perspectives on the passing train and becomes a metaphor of cinema.

An elderly Japanese man witnesses the subjects from the paintings of Dutch Baroque artist Johannes Vermeer (1632 - 1675) come to life. Following their real-life manifestation, the paintings formulate a mysterious romance story set in late-Meiji Japan in which a young woman’s relatives die under unusual circumstances concurrent with the arrival of a monk and a suspicious maid.