The Time Slit

An infinite horizon line and the image of continuous waves... Experimentation with the vertical displacement of the image of a 35 mm film. 35mm film has four perforations per image. If the perforations are offset from the projector window, the image is split in two on the screen: for example, in a face image, the eyes are at the bottom and the mouth is at the top; The image has two displaced parts. To avoid this mistake, this multi-image movie uses collage. The filmmaker assembles an image by perforation (the normal technique is an image by 4 perforations). Therefore, there is never a vertical shift in the projected image.

A typical university study trip. The camera is the gun, the lens is the muzzle. While moving with this in mind I shot a lot 8mm continuously. Stop-motion documentary with a keen sense control the camera freely, swinging the timing to press the shutter subtly adjust to the subject and boldly change. It produced unique movements and images.

At the screening venue, making a film while it's being projected. It is the {original live film}. Painting on a loop of snooker film, screening will be held. Even now, sometimes, in 16mm, do a live performance. It is a long-lasting work.

Raw material spliced ​​into projection film, paper, leaves, vinyl, 6mm audio tape. Depending on hair, etc. the film breaks during projection. The film gets shorter with each projection, the author wrote this {Disappearance Movie} and named it.

Accumulated in cardboard, a pile of unused negative film, snapshots, student ID photos, etc. These were all shot for purposes completely unrelated to film. When I decided to "get rid of it," I had an idea. A discontinuous sequence, film that does not have the frames of a normal movie. What happens if you film it? I couldn't sit still any longer. Then, I diligently pieced together these short negatives, it was compiled into a film. In other words, it is a work that uses waste materials. To add some flavor, additional photography was done with a half-size camera.

Sky and earth. The image begins to move slowly. The sound of water moving in and out of the distance. The image begins to fluctuate, while rotating, it will come off the frame. Everything swings. A moment when you just drop by. Installation and performance work.

What is a frame? He attempts to make a film that doesn't have the normal 16mm frame. He also doesn't respect standard recording principles. Thus, a distinction must be made between: - the real time during which he films the object (himself) through his camera. - the time the film is recorded. These two periods do not always correspond to real time. The image must illustrate the search for these different notions of time. To achieve this, he experiments and places a 16mm film on top of a 35mm film during the shooting.

I found an old 8mm film can! It's W8 (Regular 8). I want to see it!! But the projector is broken and doesn't work. I still want to see it!!! That's right. Each one is 8mm, but two lined up together are 16mm. Just show it on a 16mm projector!!!

This work is based on the theme of "cinematic time on film." Suddenly, I noticed the musical scale of the curtain hanging on the window in my room. The film was shot with a modified 16mm camera. The footage even made it onto the soundtrack. On film, the picture and sound are the same and it's perfectly synchronized. However, due to the structure of the projector, the sound reproduction part is separated from the image,. The picture and sound on the screen are out of sync. However, if you organize the preceding sounds into a phrase, the misalignment on the screen appears to be perfectly synchronized.

Short film by Japanese filmmaker Jun’ichi Okuyama, premiered at the Image Forum Festival in 2012.

Watch the video! The image is flickering. The sound is choppy. The black dots are developer. The white spots are the fixer. I paint the developer and fixer directly onto the raw film. I produced this work with the slogan "Bring darkroom work to light". I approached the appeal of developing and fixing with my own unique aesthetic.

Dancing man. A woman clapping her hands to the rhythm. Narrow down your theme communication between men and women rhythmically expressed. People's movements stripped down to the bare minimum, the start and end points of the movement. A composed work by just two photos. Inspired by cinematic expression before the birth of cinema, it was made using a simple method.

"Outrage" is a work for which I developed a reversible film using a negative-processing bath. While developing it, I used my fingernails to scratch the emulsion. It was a monochrome film, but when I applied the fixative, the scratches turned yellow.

For this film, Okuyama made a camera with two lenses. One of the lenses films the filmmaker from behind while the other films him from the front. He thus obtains two images of him, superimposed on the same film.

Live performance using a hand crank projector presented at the retrospective dedicated to the filmmaker at the 2023 Image Forum Festival.

Two rolls of raw film. I took a sandwich photo with paper tape What can be seen and what cannot be seen? What is captured and what is not captured? Why was the opaque paper tape. Will it be transparent when photographed? We approach one of the mysteries of film.