A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.
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127m
Les fruits de la passion
A girl loves an older man. He demands that she goes in a brothel, as evidence that she loves him.
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83m
Kusa-meikyû
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A young man, haunted by his past, travels the land in search of the lyrics to a lullaby his mother used to sing to him.
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40m
Collections privées
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Three stories. A solitary sailor falls from his boat and washes ashore on a tropical island. While seeking rescue, he's found by a nearly naked woman who is playful and compliant. He decides to erase his signs of distress and remain on the island. What awaits? In the second, an adolescent searches for the words of a nursery rime he remembers bits of. His journey takes him into dreams, sexual awakening, and Oedipal fantasy. Third, a man of wealth in late-nineteenth century Paris hires a prostitute for the night. She's also cabaret performer and takes him to her room. He fears he's about to be robbed. What's her secret?
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103m
Nito-onna: Kage no Eiga
As a family goes on with their day, the shadows on their walls lead a completely different life.
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15m
Keshigomu
Visions of characters by the seaside from one's memory are erased by the filmmaker's hand.
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20m
Bokusâ
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A young boxer accidentally kills an ex-boxing champion's brother. He then approaches the ex-champ to train him to become the next champion.
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94m
Shimpan
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A collection of surrealist scenes featuring nails. The last ten minutes of the film are interactive, giving the audience themselves a chance to hammer some nails into the screen.
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34m
Seishonen no tame no eiga nyumon
Three experimental films which run simultaneously. The subject matter is colorful and provocative.
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3m
Den-en ni shisu
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A young boys' coming of age tale set in a strange, carnivalesque village becomes the recreation of a memory that the director has twenty years later.
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104m
Sho o suteyo machi e deyou
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An angst-ridden teen dealing with his dysfunctional family hits the streets. The story is inter-cut with various psychedelic, energetic vignettes.
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137m
Tomato Kecchappu Kôtei
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A subversive short film from director Shuuji Terayama.
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72m
Ori
An experimental fantasy short dedicated to questioning whether or not man is a prisoner of time.