Tetsuya Maruyama
Tetsuya MARUYAMA (1983, Japan) is a 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. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the University at Buffalo (2007) and a master’s in Visual Languages from School of Fine Art at Rio de Janeiro Federal University (2024). His works have been presented at Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival and Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art, among others. Maruyama is one of the filmmakers in focus at IFFR 2026.
Filmography
(selection) ANTFILM (2021, short), untitled (three moons) (2024, short), GIRA 2 (2024, short), third mountain (2026, short), Q&A (2026, short), One more performance which unfolds a space (2026, short), FOTOGRAFAR (2026, short)
Tetsuya Maruyama at IFFR
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Untitled (three moons)
Tetsuya Maruyama | 15' | Brazil | European premiere
No two projectors ever really project an image at the exact same frame rate. -
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. -
Dead See
Tetsuya Maruyama | 5' | Brazil | Dutch Premiere
The Port-au-Price carnival interpreted by only the flora and the sea. -
Third Mountain
Tetsuya Maruyama | 17' | Brazil | World premiere
Slides from a Brazilian mining company render images that both delight and disturb. -
ANTFILM
Tetsuya Maruyama | 3' | Brazil | Dutch Premiere
Tiny gauge traps even tinier bodies in a tomb of tape and celluloid. -
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. -
Corredor
Tetsuya Maruyama | 6' | Brazil | European premiere
A meditation on an unloved and underappreciated space within the domicile. -
Q&A
Tetsuya Maruyama | 20' | Japan | World premiere
The simple pinhole camera renders tropical spaces to their most elemental components of light and dark.