Crazy Love

Crazy Love

Correlated with Susan Sontag's theorization of kitsch as well as employing the queer lingo of "camp," this film's relentless equal opportunity...

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Camp

Camp

The title is a phonetical arrangement in kanji Chinese characters of camp, a concept synonymous with Michio Okabe. Okabe radically explores his...

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The Doctrine on Creation

The Doctrine on Creation

Borrowing the title from John Huston’s The Bible: in the Beginning (1966) (Tenchi Sozo in Japanese), Okabe aimed to paint the zeitgeist of the...

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Saijiki

Saijiki

A unique road movie that took two years to make, based on the concept of "filming the changing seasons like a haiku poem". The men's journey...

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Shiro, Where Are You Going

Shiro, Where Are You Going

Michio Okabe's only 8mm film, which was miraculously discovered in 2021 at the back of a closet in his room, after being unaccounted for and...

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Memoir

Memoir

Michio Okabe, considered an icon of 1960s Japanese underground cinema, pursued the principle of subjective cinema by combining images that...

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Boy-Taste

Boy-Taste

In an esoteric temple, grown men return to their boyhood and play innocently. Model aeroplanes, paper butterflies, vehicles, tin toys... the things...

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