Thousand Years Old Fox

Director Shin Sang-ok, who made some of the best commercial films in the 1960s, delivers the topics of never-ending stories such as the dynamics of a ruler and subjects, and power and sex through the sentiments of a horror movie.


Tamura Yuichiro

In the title Suzuki Knife, Social Cooking, Suzuki (sea bass) refers to the name of the murderer Suzuki Denzo and the knife indicates the murder weapon or the kitchen knife. Tamura met an old blacksmith who still makes kitchen knives in a traditional way in the very city of Seki and requested him to produce a kitchen knife for cutting and trimming sea bass.


Jesse Jones

Jesse Jones’ 16mm film The Spectre and the Sphere evokes the spectres of ideology and amplifies residual voices that haunt the cultural vessels of history. It examines how the spaces of our popular imagining, such as the theater and the cinema, are also containers of historical and political impulses.


Yoneda Tomoko

We frail humans were witness to a horror that could not have been foreseen even with all of our knowledge and imagination, and to the existence of a phenomenon so immense that individuals were powerless to resist it.


Basim Magdy

Starting with shiny rooftops and ending with the seemingly insignificant demise of the last circus elephant of its kind, The Dent weaves loosely linked events and irrational occurrences to reflect on collective failure and hopefulness. An anonymous little town struggles for international recognition as it becomes obvious that failure is a monster too big to slaughter.