Mari Terashima

A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious...

Engram is a three-part piece revolving around a few good old ideas such as photos inside of photos, movies inside of movies, photos inside of movies,...

"Hatsukoi" (The First Love, 1989) is a rarely-seen early short film from a Goth-lolita-oriented experimental film-maker, Mari Terashima. Ritualized...

Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" goes goth in Mari Terashima's screen adaptation of the children's classic. Terashima brings together Goth Loli...

A video work using Watahiki’s music

A boy secluded in a green room's passion for his mother eventually drives him into a world of delusion and solitude from which there is no escape.

An aged lady and his idiot manservant, secluded in a red chamber. The room has no clocks, and all day this ritual is held in the form of the grand...

This work, filmed in Berlin, was created in homage to Elis, the model for Ōgai Mori's short story The Dancing Girl. Unter den Linden's townscape and...

This is the director's first diary film, drawn in collaboration with a diverse cast and manga artist Yumi Enomoto. It is a serious self-documentary...

The heroine is played by Amane Kazama, daughter of Visual Brains, and the film also features dolls by Dollhouse Noah and regular artists Anran,...

Featuring two schoolgirls and a woman who appears to be their mother, this surreal piece of girlish dreaming translates the world of Midori Ozaki and...

In 19th century Europe, photographs of the “grotesque” such as deformed bodies and corpses were popular and enthusiastically traded and...

A documentary made in collaboration with students at Konan University, retracing the history of EXPO '70 and attempting to track down the actress who...