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 op IFFR
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third mountain
Tetsuya Maruyama | 17' | Japan | World premiere
Slides from a Brazilian mining company render images that both delight and disturb. -
Q&A
Tetsuya Maruyama | 20' | Japan | World premiere
The simple pinhole camera renders tropical spaces to their most elemental components of light and dark. -
GIRA 2
Tetsuya Maruyama | 3' | Japan | Dutch Premiere
Dual small gauge projection of the POV of bike pedals gyrating along the sand. -
ANTFILM
Tetsuya Maruyama | 3' | Japan | Dutch Premiere
Tiny gauge traps even tinier bodies in a tomb of tape and celluloid. -
untitled(three moons)
Tetsuya Maruyama | 15' | Japan | Dutch Premiere
No two projectors ever really project an image at the exact same frame rate.