Jun Miyazaki
Directing
Biography
Born in 1965. Video artist. Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University. Although he was born to a grandfather who was a painter and a cineaste who continued to make documentary films of the local area, and a father who was a news cameraman for a certain television station, he did not get serious about film production until after entering art school. Even though "Ring Android" ('87) was a crazy blockbuster with no story, no sound, and over 45 minutes, it won the Grand Prix at Image Forum Festival '88. Since then, while working on music video clips and TV commercials, he continued to create short films that explore his unique visual world at an average rate of one a year. Starting with "Vacuum Ice" ('90), which was invited to be screened at the London Film Festival in 1992, in recent years, there have been many opportunities for films to be screened at overseas film festivals. "Eclipse" ('92), which was screened in 13 cities across the United States in 1993, was featured in the Chicago Reader. It received rave reviews from America's leading film critic Fred Camper. Since 1997, he had also started a joint project between Japan and France to introduce Japanese independent movies to France. Every year, a new film is selected as one of the "Japanese experimental films in France," and it is shown on tour throughout France, including at the Musée d'Art Contemporain in Strasbourg. In March 2003, he was invited by the same project to travel to France. Screenings and lectures will be held. In 2004, "FRONTIER" won the "Young Perspective Award" at the 57th Cannes International Film Festival Directors' Fortnight.
Known For
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Brilliant Garden
In this work, no matter which scene or cut you look at, basically a different amount of time will pass than it did during the shooting. This is true not only inside the screen of individual cuts, but also in the direction of the entire time axis. The time that flows here is a cinematic time that was newly created using the time that flowed when Mr. Kazufumi Kobayashi created a stag pattern out of paper. If we say that time is a function of motion and space, then this can be rephrased as cinematic motion and cinematic space generated by the film.
Entomologist
Walking socially empty spaces.
Brilliant Garden
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TIMESCAPE
Experimental short film made up of still images, by Jun Miyazaki.
Motion Photograffiti
Experimental short film by Jun Miyazaki.
Plastic Tear
Short movie by Jun Miyazaki.
Rapid Fire
Video with the theme of "war" by DIR EN GRAY's song of the same name. Live-action video work including animation.
The sky that has fallen
“The structure of human vision is the visual knowledge of the world. Individuals do not visually understand the world through the eyes, but through the brain. That is to say, human vision has been formed by knowledge and experience. The film can show a new vision, provided that the cinema is also a kind of visual experience and visual knowledge.” - Yo Ota
Distorted Movi Sion
With no plot or characters, this experimental film captures the landscape of a housing project, as well as the varied possibilities arising from its visual impact on the landscape. The reason why I chose a housing project as my subject is because I used to live in one and, even now, am strangely drawn to them. I also suspect that regardless of one’s nationality, the housing project is an archetypal environment universally recognizable to those of my generation. Without using spoken words, this film is a dedication to the housing project and those people of my generation all over the world.
Frontier
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A Riverscape
Jun Miyazaki sees himself as a film-maker-hunter. On the frontier between where one ends and another starts, he tries to get hold of his film prey. Waiting patiently and watching minor changes is the motto.
Border Land
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Flip Light Cruiser
Flotte is French slang for rain or downpour. This work was taken on a rainy day at the Abt Gallery in Waseda, Tokyo, a few days before his solo exhibition. If I can't shoot that day, I have to give up on the new work, and I can't help but worry about the rain. Before I saw the rush, I was worried about whether the picture would come out properly, but the rain came out beautifully, so I gave it the title "FLOTTE". It is constructed so that the speed changes intermittently in one cut (actually, it is meant to appear that way).
FLOTTE
Experimental short by Jun Miyazaki.
Chance of Rain
Frozen Dream explores visual and sensory elements, using imagery, form, and rhythm to evoke a dreamlike, introspective experience.
Frozen Dream
Experimental short by Jun Miyazaki.
Vacuum Ice
Experimental short by Jun Miyazaki.
Evolving Celestial Light
Experimental 16mm short by Jun Miyazaki.
green
Experimental short by Jun Miyazaki.