Most Popular Tetsuya Maruyama Trailers
Total trailers found: 13
Children on the Island Trailer (1987)
11 July 1987
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.
24(Twenty-Four) Burned Eyelashes Trailer (2018)
30 June 2018
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 photocopied, stretched and submerged in the cave of time.
Q&A Trailer (2026)
31 January 2026
Hazy images created through a homemade pinhole camera: palm trees and parasols are reduced to flickering impressions of light and shadow.
Shashin no Ma Trailer (2020)
28 October 2020
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 analogue film strip and the ghosts that reside within it as well as a poignant tribute by an artist-filmmaker son to his amateur-filmmaker father.
third mountain Trailer (2026)
30 January 2026
As mining projects excavate and extract, new landscapes and third mountains are formed. Part of an ongoing series based on 35mm slides given to Tetsuya Maruyama by the Brazilian mining company MBR (Minerações Brasileiras Reunidas), the film reconciles the awesomeness of these sites with their inherently destructive and enduring impact.
untitled (three moons) Trailer (2024)
14 June 2024
a moon, two moons, three moons *No projector runs at the same exact speed as another, even with the standard frame rate of 24 per second.
Antfilm Trailer (2021)
06 September 2021
Entombed in a single frame of each second of Super 8 film is the corpse of an ant, illuminated by a small burned-out hole, much like the tunnels within an anthill.
FOTOGRAFAR Trailer (2026)
31 January 2026
When tasked with an open ended writing exercise, Tetsuya Maruyama used the opportunity to write a near diaristic text about his artistic practice.
GIRA 2 Trailer (2024)
01 January 2024
Dual projection Super 8 of a ride through Rio. An enviable beach day flipped literally on its head as the cameras spiral along with the bike pedals.
Corredor Trailer (2023)
01 January 2023
A play on the Portuguese word for “to run”. Tetsuya Maruyama’s film, informed by his background in architecture, examines the corridor, a space many wish to eliminate when designing a home, but one that is essential for functionality and connection.
L.O.V.E.S.O.N.G. Trailer (2020)
02 May 2020
A sort-of found-footage film. Tetsuya Maruyama uses a super 8 film of a Jewish wedding from 1980 found in a downtown Rio flea market as its starting point.
Dead See Trailer (2020)
07 February 2020
A near-alchemical process: made with local plants and flowers collected during the 2020 Port-au-Prince carnival.
Pedra e Montanha Trailer (2026)
31 January 2026
A continuation of Tetsuya Maruyama’s ongoing research into contemporary mining activities in Brazil and beyond.
