Mari Terashima Movies

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,...

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...

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...

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

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.

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

A video work using Watahiki’s music

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...

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