≪Tokyo Sanpo Vol.1≫
Hiroyuki Sekine / Single-8 / 28min. / 1987 / Japan

After creating 《Etude》,  I was unable to make a film for a while, so I wandered around Tokyo's riverside areas and finally gained the confidence to shoot landscapes, and began to take pictures of pleasant and relaxing scenery. Later, I began to explore the possibility of using my camera in deserted places.

≪Ruins of ruins in Okubo≫
Hiroyuki Sekine / Single-8 / 12min. / 1989 / Japan

I found a vast abandoned building north of Iogi Station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line. Finding a place I could enter through a wire fence, I snuck in and began filming, but when I tried to enter a building near the main gate, a security guard spotted me. I wondered what would happen and said, "Please, let me film for another 30 minutes."  He listened to my selfish request. I hurried and was able to take pictures in the setting sun.

≪Ruins of Iogi≫
Hiroyuki Sekine / Single-8 / 8min. / 1989 / Japan

In Hyakunincho, a short walk from Okubo Station, I found a vast abandoned building that looked like a concrete testing facility. Looking for a place to enter, I found a broken fence bordering a neighboring chemical plant, where there were signs that someone had entered. I immediately started shooting using the hole. The test site had a factory and research institute on the south side and dormitories and offices on the north side. One of the dormitories was used as a guard station. The building was demolished around 1991.

≪France in a dream≫
Masaru Noto / 16mm / 6min. / 2009 / Japan

The cemetery in the video is Pere Lacuse. I later learned that Brakhage also visited this cemetery. The text is a dream I had on the plane on the way home.

≪Japanese persimmon≫
Masaru Noto / 16mm / 7min. 2sec. / 1999 / Japan

It is said that dreams are converted to some everyday format at the moment of awakening. In film, this is done through editing.

≪Instead of dream 7≫
Masaru Noto / 16mm / 7min. / 2013 / Japan

Lucio Fontana has a work called “Spatial Concepts Expectations”. There is a vivid cut of a knife on a painted canvas. When he tried it with film, space became time.

≪Instead of dream 9≫
Masaru Noto / Single-16 / 6min. / 2001 / Japan

B&W has a latitude (the range of light and dark that can be expressed) of 10:7, which is wider than that of color. Therefore, dark and light areas can be explored more deeply than with color. Soft tones and hard tones can also be expressed by selecting the film and developer.

≪while dreaming≫
Masaru Noto / Single-16 / 6min. / 2024 / Japan

When a negative is placed in a microwave oven in the middle of development, the image is crushed in some places by the heat. Then, another image is burned on the crushed area. This creates a visual rhythm that is beyond our control.

≪Plow≫
Masaru Noto / Single-16 / 10min. / 1996 / Japan

Several negative films are randomly repeated in light and dark cycles on a single positive film. Whether or not it appears as an image is left entirely to chance.

≪Scenography of a landscape≫
Dominique Belloir / digital / 5min. 30sec. / 1985 / France

"Scénographie d’un paysage" (Scenography of a landscape) was created between 1982 and 1985, from a hundred photographs of a fragment of the Breton coastline, rigorously respecting the same framing throughout the seasons, the sea and tidal movements, the sky, wind, light, clouds and coastal vegetation in the foreground. 

Through a series of cross-fades, we obtain this fixed landscape evoking a theatrical stage in perpetual mutation of colors and lighting. This contemplative work, with original music by Jean-Yves Bosseur, was digitally remastered in 2010. 

≪Video postcards≫
Robert Cahen & Alain Longuet / digital / 4min. 20sec. / 1986 / France

30 seconds to dream. Postcards come to life with video. A collection of immortal images from around the world. 

≪Zone Fuori Controllo≫
Giuliana Cuneaz / digital / 5min. 4sec. / 2011 / Italy

The cycle of stereoscopic 3D animations of Zone Fuori Controllo which include Waterproof, Crystal Growth, Rompere le acque and Fire Flows, is dedicated to urgently current problems such as natural disasters and ecological disruption. They are “other landscapes” which establish a direct relationship with reality, an unpredictable trip through the waves of a sea storm, the mysterious gorges of a grotto, the lava flow of a volcano, or the collision of huge icebergs. The series is inspired by the idea of the sublime, and is also intended as a tribute to the protagonists of Romantic painting, such as Caspar David Friedrich or William Turner. What shines through the contemporary face of catastrophe is not only the violence that springs from nature’s energy, but the presumption of individuals who believe they can govern the destiny of the universe without respecting the ecosystem. 

≪Addendum≫
Jérôme Lefdup / Addendum / digital / 5min. 5sec. / 2016 / France

The reconstruction of the two human bodies digitalized by The Visible Human Project is altered, distorted, and seems to give life and feelings back to the deceased couple, in a slow and ethereal waltz…

≪Orogenesis≫
Boris Labbé / digital / 7sec. 30s. / 2016 / France

A trip towards abstraction, as an hypothesis on how mountains might have been formed.

≪Somewhere we live in little loops≫
Guli Silberstein / digital / 5min. 49sec. / 2020 / United-Kingdom

Based on machine-learning technology, a video-generation tool learns and then re-creates a string of nature scenes and human life images. Woven together in a rhythmic, hypnotic pace, visual snippets and motion patterns appear, reborn and fall apart. 

≪Liquid forest≫
Isabelle Arvers / digital / 11min. 34sec. / 2023 / France

The baobabs are disappearing. And these trees, whose spongy wood makes them perfect receptacles for the community’s water, which turns them into cistern trees, have been dying for the last ten years. Liquid Forest plunges you into these vertical rivers, inviting you to swim in the baobabs, in the corals and to immerse yourself in a gender fluid way, in a universe that is more than binary and in realities that are more than multiple, because everything is interconnected. 

≪Virtual Kintsugi≫
Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis / digital / 11min. 56sec. / 2022 / France

"Virtual Kintsugi" is a video art series where ten viewers imagine the original forms of ten damaged paintings covered in Japanese neutral paper. The AI uses the words of the viewers to regenerate the paintings, exploring infinite possibilities of preservation and the relationship between human and machine creativity.