Film Fetish

Like few others, Okuyama has been obsessed by the particular beauty of analogue film, especially small formats, whose potentials he has enjoyed exploring since debuting in 1964 with the 8mm exercise MU. As Ōta Yō wrote: "Okuyama has been trying to make works belonging in a branch of experimental film that is named as ＇Structural Films＇ by P. Adams Sitney. However, Okuyama’s works are far beyond such a definition and incomparably unique in the world." But what does one do when the raw materials get scarcer and scarcer, the screening possibilities ever fewer? Where does an artist like Okuyama go when everything that his life is about seems to vanish?