Focus: Tetsuya Maruyama
Programme IFFR 2026
Tetsuya Maruyama is a Japanese multidisciplinary artist based in Rio de Janeiro. Though working mostly in analogue film, his works range from performance to installation, text to found sound compilations. Our programme puts this diversity on full display, as we discover his exploration of the quotidian carefully observed and dissected by lens and emulsion, microphone and pen.
Overview of films
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ANTFILM
Tetsuya Maruyama | 3' | Brazil | Dutch Premiere
Tiny gauge traps even tinier bodies in a tomb of tape and celluloid. -
Corredor
Tetsuya Maruyama | 6' | Brazil | European premiere
A meditation on an unloved and underappreciated space within the domicile. -
Dead See
Tetsuya Maruyama | 5' | Brazil | Dutch Premiere
The Port-au-Price carnival interpreted by only the flora and the sea. -
FOTOGRAFAR
Tetsuya Maruyama | 3' | Brazil | World premiere
A glass of water and a beam of light become the tools of diaristic self-reflection. -
GIRA 2
Tetsuya Maruyama | 3' | Brazil | European premiere
Dual small gauge projection of the POV of bike pedals gyrating along the sand. -
L.O.V.E.S.O.N.G
Tetsuya Maruyama | 3' | Brazil | Dutch Premiere
A found Super 8 cartridge of a vintage wedding intervened upon beyond recognition. -
One more performance that unfolds a space
Tetsuya Maruyama | 10' | Brazil | World premiere
A film without image, a performance of space and time. What is not film? -
Q&A
Tetsuya Maruyama | 20' | Japan | World premiere
The simple pinhole camera renders tropical spaces to their most elemental components of light and dark. -
Shashin no Ma
Tetsuya Maruyama | 6' | Brazil | Dutch Premiere
A meditative work exploring the Ma – a Japanese aesthetic concept – of photographic images. -
Situation-Cinema
Tetsuya Maruyama | 10' | Japan | European premiere
A text-based performance where Tetsuya Maruyama invites us to explore the cinematic outside the cinema. -
Third Mountain
Tetsuya Maruyama | 17' | Brazil | World premiere
Slides from a Brazilian mining company render images that both delight and disturb. -
Untitled (three moons)
Tetsuya Maruyama | 15' | Brazil | European premiere
No two projectors ever really project an image at the exact same frame rate.