Yukiyasu Shimada

A strange DVD brought in from a man claiming to be a freelance director.

This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and the personal film, and benefiting from the participation of multiple generations of cineastes, it is a reflection upon the original cinematic experience.

The director films his friends and an UFO at Chichibu.

Bizarre love triangle about a girl, Yuki who transforms into a tentacled creature that feasts on human blood. She manipulates the guilt-ridden Fumio to do her bidding, only for a strange romance to blossom between them.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.

A filmmaker plays with diary-docu and fiction as his camera joins his ventures into a phone dating club. Bored to death, hormones running, and desperately wanting to talk to someone his own age (preferably a girl), he walks into a local phone dating club. Can he hook up with someone? Borrowing the form of a diary-movie, the director unfurls an unpredictable and imaginative look into his own persona. 8mm experimental film by Murakami Kenji, the film that made his name.

Out of Frame (1998) plays with your expectations and the way how we are used to “read” pictures and their framing. A woman is rubbing herself against a white wall, making the typical noises of having sex from the back, and Onishi takes his time to open the framing and then showing them in explicit positions. You don’t see the penetration but watch the rhythm of two bodies, listening to it, too. The framing by windows will allow you some rest. The man is putting on his clothes and closing the door while the woman is looking out oft he window. Onishi’s typical black inserts again, and we watch the same couple on the toilet, where he is putting her hands into hand-cuffs. After that he is showering her carefully, and she remains in hand-cuffs while they are having sex again under the shower. He is using his revolver then to free her from these metal things. And the toilet is a calm place when she comes back after strangling a young man on the street. (www.desistfilm.com)

Out of Frame (1998) plays with your expectations and the way how we are used to “read” pictures and their framing. A woman is rubbing herself against a white wall, making the typical noises of having sex from the back, and Onishi takes his time to open the framing and then showing them in explicit positions. You don’t see the penetration but watch the rhythm of two bodies, listening to it, too. The framing by windows will allow you some rest. The man is putting on his clothes and closing the door while the woman is looking out oft he window. Onishi’s typical black inserts again, and we watch the same couple on the toilet, where he is putting her hands into hand-cuffs. After that he is showering her carefully, and she remains in hand-cuffs while they are having sex again under the shower. He is using his revolver then to free her from these metal things. And the toilet is a calm place when she comes back after strangling a young man on the street. (www.desistfilm.com)

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada, june 1993. Starring Katayama Kaoru as "Sleeping Beauty".

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. A short light entr'acte of "ROMANTISCHE". My confession is just beginning.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada, autumn 1992. A prelude to "Kazuko; RONDO..."

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada, summer 1992.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada, 1981.