UMMMI.

"A couple with some issues has just moved into the town. Driving through the town, they saw many “weird” people from a car window. They began to wonder why they had decided to come to this place. They stepped in an old Chinese restaurant and...? This is a story ...  (more)

"This work takes the form of a private home video, left unseen, which probes the relationship between love and suicide. Hinging upon Goethe’s seminal novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, my monologue speaks of the events that transpired between my parents on their ...  (more)

"One day when surfing through the internet, a young women discovers an old blog from several years ago. She attempts to delete it but cannot remember the password. This film attempts to go beyond borders through mixing up personal areas of the Internet by bringing ...  (more)

Hikari is a newly expectant mother cohabiting with her boyfriend Taro. However, their relationship seems to be on the rocks. The couple has had trouble finding steady employment since graduating from college, and mounting financial problems further strain their ...  (more)

"Janitor of Lunacy follows a young woman’s descent into a digital wormhole via her obsession with a BDSM account run by an unknown user. The film examines social media’s ability to acquire organicity whilst also distorting subjective reality." -UMMMI.  (more)

"I made this video because my grandmother had erotomania. Erotomania is a type of schizophrenia where the sufferer can’t distinguish between real life and one’s own imagination life. One day my grandma suddenly said, ”I had someone I truly loved when I was young ...  (more)

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Footage from a party. The Smiths' song "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" is sung by the partygoers.  (more)

"This installation piece explores the forewarning signs which occur before a defining event taking place. It develops through a mixture of documentary and scripted footages of my father, with texts related to my memory of him mixed into it. Since the Great East ...  (more)

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Video installation by UMMMI.  (more)

In a dystopian Japan, scientists have developed a new pill hailed as the ultimate forget-me-not. Although the miracle drug transforms society by warding off memory loss, it inexplicably has no effect on the narrator’s mother, a patient with early-onset Alzheimer’s. ...  (more)

"Ummmi’s Lonely Girl features a young Shibuya girl, sometimes she messes things up, sometimes she is sad or depressed but she lives her life for the fun moments. In these moments she can forget everything which has come before her in life. She needs these moments ...  (more)

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"This experimental melodrama follows Hikari, and her boyfriend Taro’s visit to his family home. While there Hikari forms an unexpected relationship with Taro’s auntie, Kyoto. As their relationship develops it becomes clear that Kyoko is struggling to control her ...  (more)

Video installation by UMMMI.  (more)

A film inspired by Italian author Cesare Pavese’s novel called The Beautiful Summer  (more)