The Black & Light Series: Naoyuki Tsuji

The films of Japanese director Naoyuki Tsuji can be seen like dreams: in an altered state of wakefulness. His particular “additive” technique—pencil and charcoal drawings over existing outlines, revealing what he calls the afterimage—presents to the spectator’s astounded eyes a disturbing organic cosmogony, childlike in appearance, comprising series of tableaux vivants made up of births, plagues, duels, heavenly creatures and mutations. A primitive, artisan garden of delights, sustained by minimalist, hypnotic soundtracks. [Screening in 16 mm]

Trilogy About Clouds, 2005, 13’;
The Rules of Dreams, 1995, 6’;
A Feather Stare at the Dark, 2003, 17’;
The Place Where We Were, 2008, 5’;
Children of the Shadows, 2006, 18’