Hiroyuki Oki

Hiroyuki Oki has a degree in Architecture from the University of Tokyo. At the age of 22 he made his first film, The Traveling Schoolroom, which positioned him in the tradition of landscape cinema. From 1986 to 2020 he made a series of shorts and feature films combining the reality of the surroundings filmed with a slight staging. Some of his works have been premiered at international festivals, achieving a high degree of visibility.

In his sensual explorations of homosexual desire, Oki portrays the intimacy of the people filmed, often adolescents. Unlike the technical virtuosity of much of Japanese experimental cinema, Oki’s films describe his everyday life and his own desire as if they were notebooks, often filmed in Super 8. Taken together, his films offer a portrait of the transformations of gay culture in Japan.