Film Fetish
A portrait of key Japanese avant-garde figure Okuyama Jun'ichi, obsessed by analogue film – a vanishing art.
66'
Japan
IFFR 2023
“This is a film in which I say to myself: this is a film, that’s how a second is, that’s what happens when a frame has passed by. When the twenty-four frames have passed, the film is finished. I had fun making this movie.”
– Okuyama Jun'ichi
IFFR 2023
- 5'
- Japan
- 1975
- Director
- Okuyama Jun'ichi
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 1975
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 5'
- Medium
- 16mm
- Original title
- Eiga
- Language
- no dialogue
- Producer
- Okuyama Jun'ichi
- Sales
- Light Cone
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IFFR 2023
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IFFR 2023
- Director
- Okuyama Jun'ichi
- Country of production
- Japan
- Year
- 1975
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 5'
- Medium
- 16mm
- Original title
- Eiga
- Language
- no dialogue
- Producer
- Okuyama Jun'ichi
- Sales
- Light Cone
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