Personal Focus 2007

The Film Makers Field (FMF), based in Fukuoka City, initiated the non-competitive 8mm three-minute-film festival Personal Focus in 1978, seeking to create an environment where anyone could make and present 8mm movies. Despite the continuing deterioration of the situation for 8mm film since its heyday, over a thousand 8mm movies have been screened as of this year’s twentieth festival.

Screening List (33 works)

Reel 1 (11 works)
Town Sketch	Kurooka Yoichi
Midnight Dance	Sasaki Ken
Air Talk	Abe Tohko
Scrap and Scrap	Shimizu Hiroyuki
Boronyago Street	Maeda Toshiyuki
One Step!	Tsukarin
H Railway	Masuda Naoyuki
The Editing Room at Night	Yoru no Henshushitsu
Humie-san Film Alive	Manjome Jun
Saigon Market ’07	THE MONDE no suke
Nuthatch Seeds	Kato Itaru
Reel 2 (11 works)
The Woman with a Camera (A Descendant of the Vertov Family)	Sakurai Tomoyuki
No.	Miyata Yasuko
Hesitation	Ikeda Yasunori
Fight! Kung Fu Wolf: The Final Chapter	Hotaruika P. D.
Views	Nogami Suwami
Blushing	Iwasawa Hiroki
2005, Mars/Paris Kodachrome 40	Ota Yo
Sidewalk	Suwa Nozomu
Harappa	Mizuyoshi Yu
Sunlight Is a Miracle	Mizuyoshi Akira
Haruka/Halka	Takato Akira
Reel 3 (11 works)
8mm Shooter’s Death Sentence	Yamazaki Mikio
Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo	Yasutake Teruaki
Berry X 4	Nao
Living with a Cat by the Tama River	Uchimura Shigeta
Five Knowing Glances	Shintaku Kengo
Dreaming of the Nakaya Apartments	Noto Masaru
Dancers	Shiozawa Teisuke
Apr. 21st–22nd, 2007	Kintaro
Divine Retribution	Kunimitsu Hiroyuki
From Here to Where?	Katayama Kaoru
Suginami Green	Kawaguchi Hajime