Movies: 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....

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 analo...

How can one go against the system when you are part of it?...

Ppresenting a divided image of light and shade, of the seen and the unseeable, Tetsuya Maruyama’s L.O.V.E.S.O.N.G. reflects on the physicality of the analogue film strip. Exposing a scratched image and crackling optical sound, the film abstracts noti...

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 ph...

Tetsuya Maruyama (Yokohama, 1983) is an artist whose interdisciplinary practice includes film, performance, sound, installation and everything in between....

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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/f...