Tamami Midorikawa
Directing
Biography
Tamami Midorikawa (緑川珠見) depicts the love, hate and desire that lurk within individuals and families with her unique surreal imagery and language. Her work, which came to film after studying fine art and butoh dance, freely changes style, yet has an aesthetic and raw physicality that shocks the viewer's spirit. Having started making films without any knowledge of cinema, Midorikawa's world of sensibility transcends existing cinema. Its uniqueness is also in common with Maya Deren and Ulrike Oettinger.
Known For
The monologues of a sister who was abandoned by her mother and a mother who abandoned her daughter overlap with the unrelated scenes and conversations of young women in their daily lives. Various women appear in the film, including a woman with a birthmark, sisters in mourning clothes, women taking nude photos in their rooms, and a mother and daughter.
SALVIA SISTERS
A mother is so crazy that she doesn't even know it. Her daughter is torn between love and hatred for her mother. A red room, a woman with a harsh laugh, a woman who keeps digging in the dirt... A chain of vivid images that spreads out in a confined microcosm.
CRAB PEONY
8mm filmwork by Tamami Midorikawa. Endless dreams spread in a garden of appetite and libido.
The Destructive Light Will Come
8mm filmwork by Tamami Midorikawa.