私が生まれる前、私の母は、桐朋学園演劇科に所属す る女優の卵でした。母は、当時未だ医学生だった私の父 との結婚を機に女優の道を断ちましたが、そんな母の影 響で、私は、物心ついた頃から「自分は将来、表現の道 に進むのだ」と心に決めて生きて来ました。 |
高校中退後、数年間絵を描いたり小説を書いたり旅行し たりしたのち、ある演技私塾に入塾して演技のレッスンを 始めましたが、(自分の体質に合わなかったのか)退屈 だったのですぐに辞めました。その頃知り合ったイメージ フォーラム出身の映像作家の作品制作に会計の責任者とし て参加したのを機に「イメージフォーラム」の存在を知 り、2002年4月、同付属映像研究所に入所しました。 |
小学校の卒業文集で「パラドックス(逆説)」をテー マにした作文を書いて以来、私にとって「パラドック ス」という言葉は、自分自身を語る上で無くてはならな い存在になりました。中学生の時に読んだ三島由紀夫の 小説「仮面の告白」で、三島が自身を「私は無益で精巧 な一個の逆説である」と定義しているのを知りましたが、 この定義はそのまま私にも当てはまります。 |
私が表現したいもの。それは、私自身の核「私=パラ ドックス」です。表現手段にこだわりは無く、絵でも文 章でも映像でも何でも良いのです。その表現を通して、 私は、私にとっての安楽の地「夢・現実・性別・人種・ 国籍…等、あらゆる境界を超越した世界」へ行き、永遠 にそこで生き続けたいのです。 |
私の作品は「自画像」の意味合いが非常に強いので、基 本的に私以外の人間は出演しません。大道具・小道具等の 美術制作もほとんど私一人で行い、撮影も、カメラに数m のリモコンを取り付けて自分で行います。ですから、制作 現場に自分以外の人間を入れるということはほとんどあり ません。映像作品といっても、一人でキャンバスに向かっ て絵を描いている感覚に近いです。 |
また、私の作品は、フィクションではありません。どの 作品も、私が見たもの・聞いたもの・体験したこと…等の 忠実な再現です。作品中に描かれるもの全てが私にとって の「現実」なのです。 |
私が歴史上で最も尊敬し、最も影響を受けたのが、ク イーン(英国のロックパンド)です。彼等の音楽だけでは なく、作品作りに対するスタンス等あらゆる面が大好き で、本当に多大な影響を受けました。 |
私は、自身の処女作「The Miracle」(2003年)の後半 部分で、大好きな曲の一つである「The Miracle」(1989 年)を使用しています。この曲の歌詞が作品の内容とマッ チしていたこと、私自身辛い時に必ず聴く曲であること… 等が使用した理由なのですが、メロディ・歌詞共にこの世 のものとは思えないほど美しく、本当に素晴らしい曲で す。正式な使用許可は得ているのですが、インターネット 上で使用することには問題がある為、私の作品 「The Miracle」はスクリーン等で上映する機会がある時に 是非観て頂きたい作品です。 |
私は物事の好き嫌いがはっきりしていて、好きなもの は徹底的に好きですが、嫌いなものは徹底的に嫌いで す。嫌いなものを列挙するとそれだけで気分が悪くなる ので、以下、好きなものだけを列挙します。 |
アンリ・ルソー(画家)、グスタフ・クリムト(画 家)、遠藤周作(作家)、手塚治虫(漫画家)、国際政 治学、国内外の児童文学、動物、「ウォレスとグルミッ ト」(英国のアニメーション)…等。あと、音楽(クラ シックでもポップスでも)と映画。音楽の無い生活など 考えられません。映画は特に50,60年代のハリウッド映 画が好きです。クラシック・バレエを約10年間やって いた影響か、バレエも好きです。 |
とにかく、ロマンティックなものが好きです。上記の ものからは、多かれ少なかれ影響を受けていると思いま す。 |
また、最近「フリーダ」(2002年・米)という映画 を観て以来、フリーダ・カーロ(画家)も好きになりま した。彼女に関する文献を読んだりすると、自分と共通 する部分が非常に多いと感じます。 |
"I am a futile and elaborate paradox." (Yukio Mishima) |
What I try to express throughout my works is my core “I am equal to a paradox.” |
The words of Yukio Mishima quoted here also applies to me. |
In my works,this proposition is expressed by white,black and the cube.Specifically, “White” and “Black” express “Ambivalence” which is about to split me into two. “The cube” comes from the fact that it was left in the bottom of a big pot after boiling me in it. |
Although my works are visual works,my feeling when creating is close to that of drawing a picture on a canvas alone. So I become the motif of many of my works. |
Most of the art production and cinematography is done by myself. |
My works are also a faithful reproduction of what I have seen,heard and experienced. Everything depicted in my works is “reality” for me. |
Born in Tokyo in 1981. |
Dropped out of the high school attached to Japan Women's University, graduated the 26th class of Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image. |
Continues to create moving images and photographic works of " self-portrait”. All of her works are self-created and self-performed. Mother of two children. |
【Solo Exhibitions】 2021 Yuri Muraoka Solo Exhibition "Sleeping Flowers" / Image Forum 3F "Terayama Shuji"(Tokyo,Japan) 2008 Yuri Muraoka Solo Exhibition "Origin of Flowers" / SHINJUKU GANKA GALLERY(Tokyo,Japan) 2006 SENDAI ART ANNUAL 2005 smt prize exhibition "yuRi=paRadox 〜sleep is equal to awake〜" / Sendai Mediatheque(Sendai,Japan) |
【Group Exhibitions】 2024 鈴木志郎康・鈴木野々歩・村岡由梨「極私的家族再会上映会」in Tokyo Family Reunion: To the Core of Personal Filmmaking in Italy 2020 "The dialogue of opposites" Yuri Muraoka+Shiori Watanabe / ART TRACE Gallery / (Tokyo,Japan) 2019 SICF19 Winners Exhibition / Spiral(Tokyo,Japan) 2018 SICF19 / Spiral(Tokyo,Japan) 2014 9th TAGBOAT AWARD / Theatre CYBIRD(Tokyo,Japan)&Galerie F&F(Taiwan) 2005 SENDAI ART ANNUAL 2005 (Sendai,Japan) 5th 21st Century Asia Design Competition (Kyoto,Japan) |
【Screenings】 2024 BIDEODROMO Internacional Experimental Film and Video Festival (Spain) 19th Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market (Japan) 7th Revolutions per Minute Festival (USA) 2° FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINE DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES(Argentina) 20th FEST - New Directors/New Films Festival (Portugal) Onirisme in Japanese art-house and experimental film : Shuji Terayama, Yuri Muraoka and Fuyuhiko Takata (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) INTERNATIONAL (META)KANSK VIDEO FESTIVAL (USA, Serbia and Italy) FEST - New Directors/New Films Festival (Espinho, Portugal) 5th Istanbul Internatinal Experimental Film Festival (Istanbul, Turkey) art + film + vienna 2024 (Vienna, Austria) BENSON FILM FESTIVAL(curated by ULTRAcinema) (Nebraska, USA) 11th International Video Poetry Festival (Athens, Greece) 19th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival (Delhi, India) Tanz,Theater,Film: Filmwinter Cooperation Programmes (Stuttgart, Germany) 5th Saigon Experimental Film Festival (Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam) 2023 BOGOTÁ SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Bogota, Colombia) Beijing International Short Film Festival / 北京国际短片联展 (Beijing, China) SWF // Short Waves Festival (Poznan, Poland) International Film Festival "Message to Man" (St.Petersburg, Russia) Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2023 (York, UK) ULTRAcinema XII (Mexico City etc., Mexico) Women Make Waves Film Festival Taiwan / 第30屆台灣國際女性影展 (Taipei,Taiwan) Image Forum Festival 2023 (Tokyo etc.,Japan) Encounters Film Festival (Bristol, UK) MIRAGE The TIDF / Taiwan shorts program (Oslo, Norway) Jumping Frames – Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival (Hong Kong) 69th The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Oberhausen, Germany) PORTO FEMME International Film Festival 2023 (Porto, Portugal) Xcentric / Music! -Cinema for all the family- (Barcelona, Spain) 2022 Kinoskop - Analog Experimental Film Festival (Belgrade, Serbia) KHUSUSNYA FESTIVAL FILM DOKUMENTER (Yogyakarta, Indonesia) Ngilngig Asian Fantastic Film Festival (Davao City, Philippines) BIDEODROMO Internacional Experimental Film and Video Festival 2022 (Bilbao, Spain) INDIE CORK 2022 (Cork, Ireland) REAKTOR film festivals 2022 (Vienna, Austria) On-art (Bydgoszcz&Poznań, Poland) AVANCA Film Festival (Avanca, Portugal) Golden Ger International Film Festival (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) Saigon Experimental Film Festival IV (Ho Chi Minh City / Vietnam) Suspaustas Laikas Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania) Barcelona International Women’s Film Festival (Barcelona, Spain) 23rd poesiefestival berlin, the Haus für Poesie (Berlin, Germany) GINZAZA (Tokyo, Japan) MACHINALIVE / Nomadica at LABA 2022 (Brescia, Italy) TIDF / 13th Taiwan Internatinal Documentary Festival (Taipei, Taiwan) Festival Accès Asie (Montreal, Canada) FILMFEST DRESDEN (Dresden, Germany) PUNT DE VISTA (Navarra, Spain) TOKYO Documentary Film Festival in OSAKA (Osaka, Japan) FLEXFEST:Florida experimental film/video festival 2006 (Florida, USA) FAME 2022-Festival international de films sur la musique (Paris, France) LIGHTS FROM THE UNDERGROUND (Yangon, Myanmar) Lumen Quarterly 2021 Winter (Beijing, China) Minimalen Short Film Festival (Trondheim, Norway) 2021 FIVA10 (Buenos Aires/ Argentine) Wathann Film Festival (Wathann/ Myanmar) Spiral Film Festival 2021 (Zushi/ Japan) Cinémathèque Temporaire du CJC #35 (Paris/ France) Experiment 120 (Nantes/France) a program dedicated to the 1920's avant-garde (Paris/ France) ULTRAcinema (Morelos, Mexico) Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival (Bucharest, Romania) ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival (Berlin, Germany) alternative/fim/video festival (Beograd, Servia) TOKYO Documentary Film Festival 2021 (Tokyo/Japan) Sapporo International Short Film Festival (Sapporo/Japan) 40th UPPSALA INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL (Uppsala/Sweden) 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival (Athens/Greece) 22nd cellu l’art Short Film Festival Jena (Jena/Germany) Engauge Experimental Film Festival (Washington/USA) 7tth Bogotá Experimental Film Festival (Bogota/Colombia) Internationales Festival Zeichen der Nacht (Berlin/Germany) 23rd Paris Festival of Different and Experimental Cinemas (Paris/ France) Aesthetica Short Film Festiva (York/England) Image Forum Festival 2021 (Tokyo etc.,Japan) MINIKINO FILM WEEK (MFW) - Bali International Short Film Festival (Bali/Indonesia) Moscow International Experimental Film festival (Moscow/Russia) Pugnant Film Series : A homeless mobile cinema (Athens/Greece) WASTE/D FILM (Athens/Greece) 67th The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Oberhausen/Germany) DELETE TV (London/UK) XXIV International Encounters Traverse (Toulouse/France) Big Muddy Film Festival (Illinoi/USA) Fisura, International Festival of Experimental Film & Video (Mexico City/Mexico) The International Biennal Dona i Cinema – Mujer y Cine – Woman & Film is a festival (València/Spain) JAEFF:Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival (London/UK) 2020 Cámara Lúcida (Cuenca/Ecuador) Festival Les Instants Vidéo (Marseille//France) Women Make Waves Film Festival Taiwan / 台中國際女性影展 (Taipei/Taiwan) EXPERIMENT 120 (Nantes/France) REAKTOR International Film Festival (Vienna/Austria) Women Make Waves Film Festival Taiwan / 台灣國際女性影展 (Taipei/Taiwan) Girona Film Festival (Girona/Spain) Visions in the Nunnery 2020 | P3 Benedict Drew (London/UK) ASK? Moving Image Festival 2020 (Tokyo/Japan) Bogota Experimental Film Festival (Bogota/Colombia) 19th International Kansk Video Festival (Kansk&Moscow/Russia) MINIKINO FILM WEEK (MFW) - Bali International Short Film Festival (Bali/Indonesia) Mosaic World Film Fest (Illinois/USA) Festival ECRA (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil) Nippon Connection (Frankfurt/Germany) LISFE:Leiden International Short Film Experience (Leiden/Netherlands) MUFF:Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (Wisconsin/USA) ALCHEMY FILM AND MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL (Hawick,Scotland) 15th ATHENS ANIMFEST (Athens,Greece) Pugnant Film Series(Winter Edition) (Athens,Greece) 16th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival (New Delhi,India) Image Forum Young Perspective 2019 (Tokyo,Japan) 6th PARTICLE + WAVE Media Arts Festival (Calgary/Canada) 2019 KLEX 2019 : 10th Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival (Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia) TOKYO Documentary Film Festival 2019 (Tokyo/Japan) ULTRACINEMA 2019 (Guelatao/Mexico) FESTIVAL CURTA CINEMA 2019 : 29th Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival (Rio de Janeiro/Brazil) JAPANNUAL : ENDLESS WALTZ:FILME VON KOJI WAKAMATSU & VIDEOKUNST VON YURI MURAOKA (Vienna/Austria) 21th Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema (Paris/France) Mirada efímera: ciclo audiovisual experimental (Mar del Plata/Argentine) Pugnant Film Series : My DIY Movie is better than your industry filM (Athens/Greece) 2018 MINIKINO FILM WEEK (MFW) - Bali International Short Film Festival (Bali/Indonesia) Pugnant Film Series : FUCK NARRATION (Athens/Greece) MARFICI (Mar del Plata/Argentine) Pugnant Film Series:Close-up to Yuri Muraoka(yuRi=paRadox) (Athens/Greece) 2017 12th Sapporo International Short Film Festival & Market (Sapporo/Japan) 19th Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema (Paris/France) Aichi International Women’s Film Festival 2017 (Aichi/Japan) 16th International Kansk Video Festival (Kansk&Moscow/Russia) 15th Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto/Canada) AVIFF Art Film Festival (Cannes/France) 17th Media Art Biennale WRO 2017 DRAFT SYSTEMS (Wroclaw,Poland) Bogota Experimental Film Festival / Cineautopsia (Bogota,Colombia) Experiments in Cinema (New Mexico,USA) Athens International Film + Video Festival (Ohio,USA) The 2017 West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival (West Virginia/USA) CLOSE-UP (London/UK) 13th IAWRT Asian Women’s Film Festival (New Delhi,India) 39th Annual Big Muddy Film Festival (Illinois,USA) Chicago Feminist Film Festival (Illinois,USA) Richmond International Film Festival (Virginia,USA) 8th Cairo Video Festival (Cairo,Egypt) New Jersey International Film Festival (New Jersey,USA) 2016 ALTERNATIVE FILM/VIDEO 2016 (Belgrade,Serbia) HIKARU ONNA -The Luminous- (Tokyo,Japan) 2nd KuFF:the Kumu Art Film Festival (Tallinn,Estonia) Staunton International Film Festival (Virginia,USA) ASK? Moving Image Festival 2016 (Tokyo,Japan) Image Forum Festival 2016 (Tokyo etc.,Japan) 2010 ASK? Moving Image Festival 2010 (Tokyo,Japan) 2007 "KITAI collection 2001-2006 Autumn/Winter" (Tokyo,Japan) Image Forum Young Perspective 2007 (Tokyo,Japan) 2006 FLEXFEST:Florida experimental film/video festival 2006 (Florida, USA) 2005 ASK? Moving Image Festival 2005 (Tokyo,Japan) 2004 Image Forum Young Perspective 2004 (Tokyo,Japan) 2003 Broadband Art and Contents Award Japan (BACA=JA) 2003 (Osaka,Japan) Image Forum Institute of Moving image 26th Graduation Exhibition (Tokyo,Japan) |
【Award / Prize】 2024 20th FEST - New Directors/New Films Festival, Silver Lynx Competition Experimantal WINNER art + film + vienna 2024, HONORABLE MENTION 2023 PORTO FEMME International Film Festival 2023, SPECIAL MENTION 2022 AVANCA Film Festival, Video Special Mention 2021 ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2021, Award for the Best Film for Tolerance, sponsored by the Federal Foreign Office 67th The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, the Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen in the International Competition 2020 Bogota Experimental Film Festival, Audience Award MUFF:Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Honorable Mentions : Emily Esperanza’s Picks ASK? Moving Image Festival 2020, Accepted 2018 SICF19, judges'award(selected by Takashi Ishida) 2017 19th Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema, Honorary and non-hierarchical award 12th Sapporo International Short Film Festival, Special Mention by Warren Sin New Jersey International Film Festival, Honorable Mentions 2016 ALTERNATIVE FILM/VIDEO 2016, Selection of Important Cinematic Works from the Festival ASK? Moving Image Festival 2016, Accepted Image Forum Festival 2016 Japan Tomorrow, Excellence Prize 14th 1_WALL Photography Competition, Jury's Special Prize(Awarded by Koutarou Iizawa) 2014 9th Tagboat Award, Second Grand Prix 2005 SENDAI ART ANNUAL 2005, Grand Prix(smt Prize) & Jury's Special Prize(Awarded by Koutarou Iizawa etc.) 5th 21st Century Asia Design Competition, Accepted ASK? Moving Image Festival 2005, Accepted 2003 Broadband Art and Contents Award Japan(BACA=JA)2003, Excellence Prize, etc Image Forum Institute of Moving image 26th Graduation Exhibition, Grand Prix |