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7. SuriBaru

by kitsuney

2 months ago

6. Monsieur Clement "Je n'ai Jamais Su"

by kitsuney

3 months ago

5. Kaysha "One Love"

by kitsuney

3 months ago

4. The Berg Sans Nipple

by kitsuney

6 months ago

3. A Day in Tokyo

by kitsuney

6 months ago

2. La Grosse Ligne rouge - English subtitled

by kitsuney

8 months ago

1. Loovee - 時間旅行

by kitsuney

8 months ago

The story behing this film is a stupid Ichat conversation with my buddy Thomas Bertrand. The result is 2 tickets to Tokyo, a script in my pocket, ten days to find comedians and shoot it without any money. I'm really happy by the experience and will surely do it again !

Produced by : Guerrilleros / Nobody at Home
Shot in Japan
With Hiroko Sebu ( myspace.com/sebumusique )
Jean Baptiste Weber ( tamatamago.com/ )
Thomas Molteau bertrand ( guerrilleros-prod.com/ )
Directed by Katya Mokolo
shot with Sony HDV Z1
Edit : Christophe Deroo ( vimeo.com/user534659 )
Music : Marc Guilbert
Sound design : Sebastien Eugène ( sebastopole.com/ )
SFX : Moles Merlo
Color Correction : Antoine Gineste

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kitsuney 2 months ago

no more password
Kaysha 2 months ago

J'adore
kitsuney 2 months ago

et t'as bien raison !
Blake Whitman 2 months ago

weird ending, but I loved how this was shot.
kitsuney 2 months ago

I sux at ending, I need to work on that ...
Blake Whitman 2 months ago

ending is always hard.
kitsuney 2 months ago

yeah, i think that when you start a crazy story the end must e crazier but you need the money or the propoer set .
RLM Productions 2 months ago

interesting to say the least thanks for sharing.
kitsuney 2 months ago

no problem, always a pleasure
Dondon Productions 2 months ago

Loved the way it was shot.
Although the story was kinda creepy...
=D
kitsuney 2 months ago

not that creepy ... weird yes but I didn't think of the creepy part ...
Dondon Productions 2 months ago

Creepy in terms of panty sniffin'
XD
Overall though, a cool vid.
kitsuney 2 months ago

Actually one time I went in an adult store in Tokyo, and there was used panties on sale. That was creepy cuz it was real ...
Steve 2 months ago

Nicely shot, reminded me a bit of some of Wong Kar Wai's work. A subtler premise might have had greater effect though - the locations deliver enough WOW.
kitsuney 2 months ago

wow wong kar wai so much greater that couldn't even have the slightest idea to compare my work to his, enven a tiny bit. At first the short was longest ( 4min more ) But I thought that it was too long to tell this simple story. So I removed all the extras sequences ( and there were a lot of it ) But I think the movie is better without ...
Makoto Muroizumi 2 months ago

Je suis japonais, et je ne comprend pas pourquoi il vous a fallu venir jusqu'au Japon pour filmer cela.

Peut-être c'est pareil comme "Paris, Texas" de Wim Wenders, ou "Arizona Dream" d'Emir Kusturica, pour les américains.

On dit que ces films sont plus appréciés ailleurs qu'aux États-Unis.
kitsuney 2 months ago

Pour les décors surtout, à paris c'est tellement moche de nuit. Tokyo est un endroit où tu peux filmer de nuit sans rajouter de projecteurs. et surtout l'eclairage est majoritairement aux néons donc moins orange qu'ailleurs. et vu qu'on avait prévu de venir de toute façon autant joindre l'utile à l'agréable, mais pour avoir fait un prérepérage dans paris, aucun décors ne s'y prétait vraiment ( et j'en ai fait des laveries .. )
kitsuney 2 months ago

et il faut rajouter que l'image perverse des "japonais" aide plus à la "crédibilité" même si ça ne reste qu'une fiction débile. dans un autre pays l'idée fonctionne moins bien à mon sens
Greg C 2 months ago

The Asian girl was truly beautiful, well done on the casting. The story did get a laugh from me I must admit, the reaction on the two men's faces when she spotted them. Overall great little video, would of loved to have traveled to Toyko, maybe later in life I will.
kitsuney 2 months ago

here's her myspace :
myspace.com/sebumusique, actually she's a musician too. glad it make you laugh. when you'll get there you'll love it
RogerB1 2 months ago

I loved it. I lived in Japan for 18 months as a musician and you brought back some of the very interesting and colorful night life. thanks
PS The photography and edit was very well done. Your use of very little music was refreshing. It fit the story perfect.
kitsuney 2 months ago

Thanx a lot. I was really doubtful about this project when I went there, because I've never made a project alone, without any technician to help me when I had doubt. And it's cool to see that people like the movie.
Levi McCallum 2 months ago

Okay, wow. You've just changed the way I look at shooting. Thank you so much.
kitsuney 2 months ago

no money no time = chaotic camera use and jump cut editing ^^
Pierre 2 months ago

Oops. Well constructed short. Love it.
kitsuney 2 months ago

Oops ?
Pierre 2 months ago

Oops for the surprise effect at the end...
Very well constructed story. A 'like' a lot.
Thnx for sharing.
kitsuney 2 months ago

thanx again then ^^.
Quite complicated to do, since when I arrived in Japan the story wasn't finished, I didn't have the comedian. I had nothing so I changed the story when things started to add
Stefano Dooijes 2 months ago

Nice short, definitely a 'Like' ^^
Loved the locations too.
kitsuney 2 months ago

I think the locations did it all, especially the particular street light ( love the neons )
Stefano Dooijes 2 months ago

Yeah exactly. Makes me want to take the plane right away and just chill out there.
kitsuney 2 months ago

you should ... ( expensive though ... but once you're in you can stay there for cheap money )
Stefano Dooijes 2 months ago

Well who knows, one fine day..
I'm gonna stick with Amsterdam first though.
kitsuney 2 months ago

wow, there's great stuff to shoot in amsterdam, wanted to do a short over there ...
Stefano Dooijes 2 months ago

cool where exactly did you wanted to shoot?
I'm thinking about making a few shorts in London, Paris and Eastern Europe this summer. You life in Paris right?
Is it nice at night or somewhat boring?
kitsuney 2 months ago

It depends where you go ! Paris has so much different feeling at night, depending on what you want to shoot I can tell you where to go. For shooting in Amsterdam I had a friend who made a music video over there and the image was terrific
Stefano Dooijes 2 months ago

I'm not sure yet, but I will probably want wide areas where I can make action scenes (near water maybe) with on the background some cool city lights..
But first I'm making a video clip here in Amsterdam for a contest on filmmaking.net (you should do it too, paris-style!)
You actually got me thinking of the locations cos you told me my city has great stuff to shoot (I never even thought about it until then) thanks for that!
kitsuney 1 month ago

Maybe one day we'll run on each other in Amsterdam ^^
Stefano Dooijes 27 days ago

hope it will be a sunny day ^^
you never know in Amsterdam...
kitsuney 27 days ago

I'll try to watch the wheather forecast before coming .... but since it's not always acurate ^^
Stefano Dooijes 27 days ago

I never watch it, I trust my instincts and the morning sun :D
kitsuney 26 days ago

When I work with wheather insurance company for a shoot, I think the next time I'll talk to them I'll said that. trust me, I saw the sky this morning, it's gonna be a great day !
Stefano Dooijes 26 days ago

^^That's how we do it.
Joe Elario 2 months ago

very nicely done .
kitsuney 2 months ago

thanx sir
juan rodriguez 2 months ago

very nice just keep going.
kitsuney 2 months ago

hope to shoot another one this year
Gerald Yancey 2 months ago

Great short film! The funny part is when she found him. Had to watch that part several times, lol.
kitsuney 2 months ago

Actually, the guy she finds is the producer of the short ^^
Ayz Waraich 2 months ago

weird i thought i already added a comment for this.

anyway, this was super cool. I felt like I was in those streets... funny too.
kitsuney 2 months ago

Maybe, it's not very far from Shinjuku, the subway station is Nakano, just in front of the subway there's a little mall ( the one in the short ) and not to far from this is the coin laundry
neki 2 months ago

a good video
kitsuney 2 months ago

thanx
Porki 2 months ago

Great video, very funny for me even if the end was a little weird :)
Good Job Kitsuney.
kitsuney 2 months ago

you'll see, next one will be even better
Kaysha 2 months ago

wow, loads of comments, that's good
kitsuney 2 months ago

yup ! nice to see that people watch and take time to comment. thanx to everyone
Porki 2 months ago

I hope so :)
Give me some news about your new project :D
kitsuney 2 months ago

top secret ( shooting in august I hope )
tuco 2 months ago

It had a cliff-hanging element to it. I sat wondering what was going to happen next. And, just like everyone has said, on the weird side. Especially weird was the dude sniffing panties that were just washed. I mean, doesn't that fetish want them in a used condition, lol?
kitsuney 2 months ago

yes, but for my scenario it wasn't appropriate ^^
you just ruined everything ^^
WaterFlow 2 months ago

I've enjoyed it. Nice Works :D
kitsuney 2 months ago

thaaaaaaaaannxx
Paul Moore 2 months ago

great work man. YOu have inspired me. I am in Osaka for the next 3 months with a letus mini 35 and a hv30. gonna be shooting shorts all summer! How did you manage to find the cast? again great camera work too!
kitsuney 2 months ago

I'm a girl -_-, and for the casting I asked everyone I knew in tokyo and lived in tokyo if they had friends who knew how to act. but I didn't put any dialogue in my script just in case I dind'nt had comedian.
thomas molteau-bertrand 2 months ago

oh really nice movie, the guy with the pants on his head is so great ! I think he's gonna be really really famous!
kitsuney 2 months ago

Yes I think he was great. strangely he looks a lot like you, oh and you even have the same name, oh peculiar ........................ when do we shot the next one ? ^^
toys prophet 2 months ago

よし !! I like it !!! J'ADORE !!! : )
kitsuney 2 months ago

ありがとう !! Thanx ! merci ^^
Emmanuel Tenenbaum 2 months ago

Ben heureusement qu'elle est la pour nous sauver de ce dangereux reseau.

Bon j adore, of course. Desole pour la reaction tardive.
kitsuney 2 months ago

Merci Manu ! ça fait plaisir, rdv au prochain donc ^^
milko romero 2 months ago

Muy bueno, me gusto mucho, te felicito.
(I love it, good job, congratulations)
kitsuney 2 months ago

Thanx for the compliment, making me wants to do more !
vart 2 months ago

Really really well shooted
kitsuney 2 months ago

Thanx, did this all by myself and wad a little bit freaking out once in the set ... but with a good editing ( thanx edittorr !!! ) we manage to save my chaotic shoot ( lots of shot missing ^^ )
Musubi 1 month ago

This one has me laughing. I loved that part shot in the shopping arcade leading to Nakano Broadway where she gives the pantystealer/sniffer a good wack. Moral of the story. Do not mess with Hiroko's underwear!
kitsuney 1 month ago

Moral of the story, buy used underwear in a real store ^^.
thanks for your comment Musubi
DoAn Forest 1 month ago

Nicely done! Stealing underwear from clothing lines is a crime that appears in the media pretty often in Japan. A TV documentary there created controversy when they deliberately set up underwear in easy to grab places, and entrapped the would-be thieves. I wonder what "Suribaru" means? I tried to look it up in a Japanese dictionary and couldn't find it ...
kitsuney 1 month ago

Is this TV documentary available somewhere ? and for the title actually it's stupid pun. It means underwear phonetically ( in french )
DoAn Forest 1 month ago

I didn't see the documentary, just read an article about the controversy. I just searched for it on youtube and came across this clip from a video game about stealing laundry:
youtube.com/watch?v=NGlq8tHzNMs
After some searching, I found the original article I read here:
search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fd20051023t1.html
kitsuney 27 days ago

Thanx for the links, gonna check this out right now ...
Peter Quiambao Jr. 1 month ago

Oh man. The locations in this video were SPECTACULAR. Seriously, all of them were unique and well lit. The visuals in this video are top notch, just wish you guys had a steadicam or something.

The video started out pretty interesting and cool (with a slight hint of humor) and it took a turn for the creepy in the end.
kitsuney 1 month ago

Japan light is amazing ! I didn't have to add any lights, everything was there, just three days to find each location and we were set.
Too bad for the stead, I hope I had one too ... ( way over budget ... )
thanx for the comment
Peter Quiambao Jr. 1 month ago

You should really try building one of these: cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam/

You can't beat a steadycam made out of $14 of material. Even if you can't build any, the guy who came up with the idea will make one for you for $50.
kitsuney 26 days ago

wow, I'll ask a friend to make one for me ... thanx again for the link ...
Void Deck Films 30 days ago

nice
kitsuney 26 days ago

thanx
Nathan Sage 20 days ago

kitsuney,
i had mixed feelings about the way the story plays out (i thought the light, comedic tone may have clashed a bit with the stark fates of the transgressors), but i'm so transfixed by your simple, cinema-verite style and solid, visual storytelling that you'll probably have me back here watching your films as long as you continue making them.
kitsuney 20 days ago

Hey Nathan,
Thanx a lot for your comments I really apreciate it ( even the mixed feelings part ^^ ). Put some kind of pressure though for the next one ... It'll be better !

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