Isao Kota Trailers
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Born in Niigata Prefecture in 1953. He began making his own films in 1972.
Most Popular Isao Kota Trailers
Total trailers found: 33
Preparation Trailer (1977)
01 January 1977
Based on strict shooting notes for each photogram. A special camera was designed to erase the sequential decomposition of the still images.
Circuit Meter Trailer (1983)
01 January 1983
“Movies shot on high-sensitivity 8mm film have rough grain, and you can see this grain moving in like a haze on the screen.
Northern Hemisphere Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
I wanted to make a film in which the world is turned upside down, a film made up of images that assert that these images have no meaning.
Railroad Crossing Trailer (1975)
12 June 1975
Human eye movements are similar to the way pigeons and chickens shake their heads. I wanted to capture that restlessness in a video.
Far from the explosive form of fruit Trailer (1972)
08 October 1972
I once had a vivid feeling, basking in the sunlight in a field listening to the murmuring of melting snow, that I was surrounded by sensations, sounds and sights.
Marilyn Magdalene Trailer (1972)
12 October 1972
If there are many photos taken at different times and places, and the same person appears in each photo, then by taking stop-motion pictures of those photos, it will become an animation of the same person moving.
Echo Trailer (1982)
02 June 1982
“I held my finger between the projector and the screen and filmed while touching the projected object with the shadow of my finger.
Hammer Trailer (1977)
01 November 1977
The inside of the screen is a fictional space separated by a frame, and the screen is the surface of that fictional space.
Big Stone and Small Night Trailer (1991)
01 January 1991
“I created this film using my favourite motifs and techniques - the surface tension of water, the image of night and time permeating the stone, vertical movement in space, and action cutting to transcend distance.
Dutchman’s Photographs (8mm) Trailer (1974)
02 June 1974
The 1976 version is the final version, but it is a reworking, with more nesting, of the version made and screened in 1974.
Emotion Ship Trailer (1976)
02 January 1976
These are Yamashita Park and Yokohama sightseeing boats in 1976. In the live action section, I expressed the relationship between the landscape and the viewfinder with a moving matte, and in the photographic section, I explored the relationship between the image and the frame by presenting various patterns.
From the Window Trailer (1974)
01 January 1974
The image captured by moving the camera left and right moves left and right on the screen. The screen was then re-shot by moving the camera left and right.
Prologue/Epilogue Trailer (1977)
01 May 1977
I made this in 1977 because I wanted to show a "Prologue" at the beginning and an "Epilogue" at the end of my solo exhibition.
Shadow Stepping Trailer (1983)
01 December 1983
I filmed the video as if playing with shadows, listening to the birds singing on the top of a small hill and feeling the height of the sky from the sound of airplanes passing overhead.
Finger Trailer (1978)
01 May 1978
I combined a mostly still photo (a person and scissors) with a series of photos (fingers) that show a lot of movement.
Red Light Trailer (1978)
01 September 1978
“This film is assembled from a series of cuts conveying different moods. It is mostly composed of the simple action of seeing images alternately or in succession, such as of scissors cutting against each other, or of the blink of eyes peering through a magnifying glass.
Compass Trailer (1980)
01 January 1980
When you shoot incandescent light in daylight, the image appears blue. To compensate for this, you put an amber filter on the lens, but if you remove the filter from the lens and move it away from the camera, you will see two areas of different color temperatures.
Full Tide Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
“Film images are projected when light is emitted from the projector lens and reaches the screen. The projector and the screen are connected by a beam of light.
Mineralogist Trailer (1977)
01 March 1977
8mm films are shot at 18 or 24 frames per second and projected at the same speed. Some 8mm projectors are capable of slow-motion projection.
ASCENSION Trailer (1972)
11 October 1972
I wondered what it would feel like to see another image at the moment the bubble bursts. I wondered if there was a crucial difference between splicing another image onto a frame just before the bubble bursts, and splicing another image onto a frame just after the bubble bursts, so I created this work to watch that moment over and over again.
Earth Stone Trailer (1986)
01 June 1986
I wanted to make a film about an alien wandering around in a field somewhere, observing nature. As he marvels at insects and focuses on wormholes in the leaves, the sun sets and dawn breaks, and then the sun sets and dawn breaks again.
Full Moon Trailer (1979)
01 January 1979
I cut out a rectangular portion of a photograph to create a peephole, equivalent to a camera viewfinder.
Star Nest Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
When I look up at the night sky, I sometimes feel like I am on a planet called Earth. During the day, plants communicate with the sun.
NEBULA Trailer (1973)
11 October 1973
The light from the projector lens was projected through a sheet of ice, and the 8mm film was then immersed in a solution of diluted bleach and stirred to scratch it.
THE CRAMPED AREA Trailer (1973)
12 October 1973
The first half of the film is about the silent sound of the cicadas penetrating the rocks. The overall view is of a horizontal rotation as you ascend from your feet to the sun, but this is the first half of the film.
1・18 Trailer (1973)
10 October 1973
It depicts a day in a somewhat poor apartment life, where I eat and edit 8mm film. I was criticized for the terrible way I washed rice, but anyway, I edited many shots taken at each step of the movement together to recreate a certain time of day through the movement of my eyes.
Cat's Cage Trailer (1974)
01 June 1974
We filmed a cheetah roaming around at Tama Zoo. We projected that footage and followed the cheetah's movements on the screen with a camera.
Breeze Trailer (1974)
03 June 1974
It was a moment in the apartment I lived in at the time. The breeze was coming in through the window every now and then.
Sleep Comes Trailer (1974)
03 June 1974
In order to see that a sequence of photographs is a film, I made various experiments within a single uninterrupted film.
Dutchman's Photographs Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
Beginning with the grounded view of bare feet walking through shallow surf, the film then seizes and, in successively cumulative layers adds frames of image-within-image until we are watching the walking feet through a tunnel.
Cane Trailer (1974)
04 June 1974
I took this photo in Uraga. I was carrying a tripod with an 8mm camera on it, so it was a selfie from behind.
Meridian Passage Trailer (1977)
01 September 1977
The film was shot at the Osanbashi Pier in Yokohama and then re-shot on a matte. The mattes were changed so that parts of the landscape were partially visible and partially hidden, and the projector lens was left open and closed to create a random effect.
Air Current Trailer (1975)
01 June 1975
A movie film shot continuously is a series of action shots, one frame at a time. This is because there is a continuation of movement between the images in one frame and the next.
