Movies: Taruto Fuyama

A day in a seaside town....

The little girl has a complex because she doesn’t look like her mom, and the mom wants her daughter to look more ladylike. Their faces don’t look alike, but their hands do. The girl treasures this resemblance, which also enables the mom to treat her ...

Reminiscing the days I spent with an old friend, facing up to the narrow but deep gap that lies between us....

There is a huge fish that swallows boys. A boy tries to fish using himself as bait. He sails a boat to eat this huge fish....

Deep down the alley the black cat has entered is a town where nonhuman beings live in peace. The cat returns to his home to rest when suddenly he hears a strange sound coming from next door....

Everyone has a sense of justice. The protagonist thinks her ideas are right and voices her opinions through protests for social justice. One day the demonstration turns violent. Maybe we could live in peace if self-righteousness were to disappear....

My deceased great-grandmother had been a part of my life as a portrait on the wall. I searched for ways to substantiate her life inside me and decided to photograph and develop pictures of her at two different ages....

Microorganisms propagate, gather, and transform into an A4 sheet of paper. You can feel signs of life within the page....

Animations inspired by the art of Jim Woodring....

In a land where there are no enemies or allies is a lone soldier. He spends his days sculpting wood with his bayonet. And then one day, out of the blue, an enemy stands before him....

One night as I was walking through the forest, a robber steals my bookmark. I chase him only to end up in an endless void of darkness....

When I touched the sack of cod roe for the first time, it felt exactly like my thighs. It was light pink and so soft. Maybe my whole world is made of squishy fish eggs....

That moment of refreshing sensation when drinking a soda in the hot summer....

It's summer vacation and all the kids in the neighborhood have left to visit relatives. But there in the relentless glare of the sun, is a boy looking up at the sky....

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 an old Japanese saying about recovering from bad happenings....

The adventure of a lost little rabbit wandering through the woods. As night draws near, wonder-working plants and flowers show the way....

On days I don't want to leave the house, I enjoy watching TV and videos on my smartphone. I'm supposed to be at home but the screen keeps taking me elsewhere and I lose my grip on my whereabouts and reality....

From that day an anxiety started to root in the man's room. He just keeps walking not to sink in listlessness. This is a document to reflect my own anxiety arisen after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster....

No doubt negative enery is going to accumulate in my body today, tomorrow and the day after. When that happens, I'll have my own way of release....

Inorganic and disconnected substances are infected with consciousness. They wander between points and surfaces believing they are complete individuals....