Koji Yamamura Movies

Created using "Etching on film" from the NFB's McLaren's Workshop Application.

When the mind says aah, the body says hee. I dance around the confusion and the consensus, and my whole life is getting composed of these dances.

The heroin has been living life as an undergraduate. There is nothing remarkable about her. However, she has noticed there is something strange...

Bloopers in sports are different from the blunders we make in everyday life but they tend to share similar physical movements. The title comes from...

This animation shows how the liquid in a glass erupts, spreads, mixes, and overflows.

This house rattling spirit has lived in this old house for generations. But the old woman who lives there as the final resident can no longer hear...

This film is an allegory towards clumsy people. Having met egocentric people, I go down the stairs of melancholia. I get swallowed up by the waves...

The beach is packed in a Chinese resort. People are enjoying the summer holidays. An abrupt thundershower makes them run around in a flurry.

When immersed in the contours swelling and waning in the forest of needles, the mundane world drifts away, and we only live to breathe.

Big cities are glutted with information. Unconscious curiosity, hidden under apparent indifference, invites us into a noisy loop.

Alice goes alone. She opens the doors like she let her legs do the leading and she finds various houses by various people. This work expresses the...

This film shows various images of flowers growing, blossoming and losing their petals.

A boy’s spoon falls on the floor when he is having breakfast. The moment he is trying to pick it up, the boy is thrown into a different world....

It should have been an ordinary day, but it was very different from usual. There was a large crowd in front of my grandma’s house. Where did...

"Anthology with Cranes" is a 17th Century scroll painting by Sotatsu Tawaraya, measuring over 13 meters long. Koji Yamamura attempts to decipher this...

Many arms cling to a man. He doesn’t like it but he believes the situation will never change.

A subtle and softened x-ray tinted journey through an opaque, undescribed stratosphere.

A girl heading home from school is met with a bigger version of herself who poses arbitrary challenges with unspeakable consequences. The little girl...

This is the story of Pluto, a planet that has been removed from the solar system and is wandering alone in the vastness of space, and its satellite,...