Hiroyuki Oki

Heaven-6-Box

Hiroyuki Oki

Commissioned by the city of Kochi to mark the opening of its Museum of Modern Art, this experimental feature by Japan's foremost gay indie film-maker almost defies description. The film is divided into six 10-minute chapters (or 'boxes') which, says Oki, add up to an image of 'heaven'.

ターチ トリップ

Hiroyuki Oki

Masashi Mori, Masashi Mori

A film like an Impressionist painting; the kind of paintings to have titles like 'urban view from the artist's studio'. The film is largely set in the film-maker's home and the street in the provincial town of Aichi where he lives. Minor everyday incidents are observed poetically; the melancholy mood of the images is boosted by serene electronic music. There is no dialogue; the sound track only comprises streets sounds as well as the music. Loose, almost nonchalant impressions of the street or of cloudy skies are juxtaposed with posed, almost photographic mildly homo-erotic portraits of friends of the film-maker. Tarch Trip is made up of fragments of a cinematographic diary, which are however not edited chronologically. Two periods alternate. One is characterized rain and dark cloudy skies. The other is sunny and repeatedly accompanied by three friends

心の中

Hiroyuki Oki

Kimihiko Abe, Itsuhaku Kawamura

Oki fuses documentary elements with narrative filmmaking to such a point that it's difficult to distinguish one from the other. The film is both the story of two men falling in love with each other on a beach, and a faithful document to the filmmaking process. In the film within a film titled "Gay Couple Trying to Connect on the Beach", the documentary footage of director Hiroyuki Oki will be double and triple transcribed. The documentary film explores the relationship between the director and the world, as well as interviews with friends. Soon the director realizes that "kokoro" is not what is inside of him, but the feeling that arises when confronted with something.

エクスタシーの涙 恥淫

Hiroyuki Oki

Hotaru Hazuki, Kiyomi Itō

A conceptual pinku film by renowned experimental artist Hiroyuki Oki, which is conceived of 60 shots which all are 60 seconds long and represent an absurdist take on the narrative and stylistic schemes of erotic cinema.

たまあそび

Hiroyuki Oki

Yasuhiro Hashiguchi, Masakuni Ishibashi

A man named Shiki has been sent to a company in Matsuyama. Since Shiki was famous as a baseball club member at a previous company, there is a story about baseball clubs in the company. Ken, who was a player in high school, participated without being reluctant, supported by his lover Michiko.

天使の楽園

Akihiro Suzuki

Kôichi Imaizumi, Akira Suehiro

Takachi, a young porno star from a small town in Japan is found dead. His death provides the opportunity to show us his true emotions, and how his two best friends in Tokyo remember him. These two travel back to Takachi's town, Kochi, which Takachi himself had visited just prior to dying. In Kochi, all boys seem to be angels.

あなたが好きです、大好きです。

Hiroyuki Oki

Kazunori Shibuya, CHANO

Japanese student You throws his relationship with boyfriend Shin into jeopardy when he begins an affair with an attractive man he meets at a train station. You attempts to come clean with his secret, but ending the affair proves too difficult. As a complicated and dangerous love triangle develops between these three men, each one begins to closely examine his identity, sexuality and intentions.

家族コンプリート

Kôichi Imaizumi

Kôichi Imaizumi, Kiyomi Itō

A highly contagious incest virus induces several generations of a Japanese family to have sex in all possible constellations and across gender boundaries – and with that man in a bear costume who suddenly appears? Only in Japan!

Toshi Shi

Hiroyuki Oki

This work by Hiroyuki Oki was originally conceived as an installation with four beamers projecting different video fragments in a particular order. Here, rhythmical multiscreen editing and poetic voiceover create a multidimensional elegiac space riddled with people, snow-covered city streets, and written notes.

Yûshô

Hiroyuki Oki

The work of Japanese experimental filmmaker Hiroyuki Oki as been described as "queer ambient film," and this work brings his fascination with dream-like images and manipulation of time through editing to a new level. Yusho-Renaissance follows an artist and his companions on a trip to the forest, while a mysterious but beautiful woman follows; without a structural narrative, their journey becomes a lovely but surreal parade of images, altered through editing, filmed at multiple speeds or modified by video manipulation.

Yuuei kinnshi

Hiroyuki Oki

The film was made in a period of three weeks in the summer of 1989. It starts in a youth hostel somewhere in the mountains where Oki has a temporary job and continues in the outer suburbs of Osaka. A short silent film that Oki made in 1988 is included as a flashback in the film.

Shujinkou

Hiroyuki Oki

Short film by Hiroyuki Oki.

Matsumae-kun no senritsu

Hiroyuki Oki

Chronicles ten days spent at a seaside town; five of them with a visiting boyfriend, and five more after the boyfriend's departure.

Irome

Hiroyuki Oki

This film consists of several portraits of boys, sometimes alone - in an interior, in front of a window, other times in a group, three dancers on a roof - or even as a couple, kissing, hugging. These scenes are intertwined with each other, supporting a waking dream whose desire is the driving force.

The Traveling Schoolroom

Hiroyuki Oki

Oki Hiroyuki's First Film shot at a mountain lodge. "The film was simply a series of landscape shots, without a story." (Oki Hiroyuki).