Tetsuya Maruyama

The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.

A sort-of found-footage film. Tetsuya Maruyama uses a super 8 film of a Jewish wedding from 1980 found in a downtown Rio flea market as its starting point. Bleached, scratched and rendered beyond recognition, the film forms an alternative love song that is more focused on cinephilia than marital bliss.

When tasked with an open ended writing exercise, Tetsuya Maruyama used the opportunity to write a near diaristic text about his artistic practice. But, crucially, he decided to forgo words, and instead inscribe his meaning through light on a roll of Super 8. FOTOGRAFAR is a film about a glass of water.

a moon, two moons, three moons *No projector runs at the same exact speed as another, even with the standard frame rate of 24 per second. There is a (d)effect that could not be counted in number and this "imperfection" is apparent to our retinal perception throughout a long transformation, as if it were the lunar orbit.

A near-alchemical process: made with local plants and flowers collected during the 2020 Port-au-Prince carnival. The film was then developed with vitamin C/sodium carbonate and fixed in a salt water bath for four days. The fix was never washed away, allowing salt crystals to form on the print from which this digital transfer was made.

An owl finds a dove in a twilight bankruptcy, entering the territory he knows it does not belong. Inside this unknown universe of sound/image, two worlds always seem to collide; Whistle of cassette tape/walker, voodoo ritual/new morning and funeral/fisherman's boat.

The scratched and faded – and at times almost abstracted – home movies that pass through the projector in Tetsuya Maruyama's "Shashin no Ma" simultaneously welcome and resist nostalgia, in what is both a meditation on the physical nature of the analogue film strip and the ghosts that reside within it as well as a poignant tribute by an artist-filmmaker son to his amateur-filmmaker father.

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A play on the Portuguese word for “to run”. Tetsuya Maruyama’s film, informed by his background in architecture, examines the corridor, a space many wish to eliminate when designing a home, but one that is essential for functionality and connection. A single-take meditation through time on an oft-forgotten domestic space.

Entombed in a single frame of each second of Super 8 film is the corpse of an ant, illuminated by a small burned-out hole, much like the tunnels within an anthill. A haunting miniature tragedy.

In school, we learn to remember to live, but in life, we learn to forget to enrich living. Frozen from the film-propaganda, Let the student study (1962), by Jean Manzon, made against the student movement in the pre-coup-d'etat context, a frame is photocopied, stretched and submerged in the cave of time.

Dual projection Super 8 of a ride through Rio. An enviable beach day flipped literally on its head as the cameras spiral along with the bike pedals. Moments of stability render people enjoying the pleasant setting until it all goes topsy turvy again!

Hazy images created through a homemade pinhole camera: palm trees and parasols are reduced to flickering impressions of light and shadow. Familiar sounds of the scene are garbed by magnetic pulses. The title, taken from a jazz piece by Dave Holland, serves as an unheard soundtrack to a meditation on time and space.

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As mining projects excavate and extract, new landscapes and third mountains are formed. Part of an ongoing series based on 35mm slides given to Tetsuya Maruyama by the Brazilian mining company MBR (Minerações Brasileiras Reunidas), the film reconciles the awesomeness of these sites with their inherently destructive and enduring impact.

A continuation of Tetsuya Maruyama’s ongoing research into contemporary mining activities in Brazil and beyond. Multiple 35mm slide projectors cycle through images captured by a Brazilian mining company while being manipulated live by a roving aperture machine made by the artist himself.