Teruo Koike

Known for: Directing
Died: March 16, 2022
Movies: 48

Born in Aichi in 1951. Becomes involved in independent filmmaking as a student of Kobe University. Discovers Stan Brakhage in 1974 and steps into the world of individual experimental images. Engages in constructing a petrochemical complex in Iran in 1978. Returns to Japan a year later due to the Khomeinī revolution. Joins the kick off of Voyant Cinémathèque in 1983. Leads the image exhibition based on individual and new work shows, "The Image Cosmology", since 1996 and continues till today. Also, he continues to produce "The Ecosystem Series", his lifework.

Best-Known Movies

5.0

Inner New Moon

1999

2.0

Ecosystem 5 ~ A Tremulous Stone

1988

5.5

Ecosystem 12 ~ Conjunction

2003

A (possible) trip around the world in super 8

2021

Ecosystem 6 ~ A Sort of Mycelium

1989

Ecosystem 17 ~ Castor

2010

Ecosystem 7 ~ A sedimentary Heat

1990

Ecosystem 29 ~ Density 3

2020

INSECT

1983

Ecosystem 20 ~ Stone

2013

Filmography

2022	575: A Multi-Record Multiplet
2021	A (possible) trip around the world in super 8
2020	Enjoying Multiple Performance

Directing, Writing & Producing

2022	575: A Multi-Record Multiplet	Director
2020	Ecosystem 30	Director
2020	Ecosystem 29 ~ Density 3	Director
2020	Enjoying Multiple Performance	Director
2019	Ecosystem 28 ~ Density 2	Director
2018	Ecosystem 27 ~ Density 1	Director
2018	Ecosystem 26 ~ Vibrating Sand	Director
2017	Ecosystem 25 ~ BlacK 2	Director
2016	Ecosystem 24 ~ BlacK	Director
2016	Ecosystem 23 ~ Time	Director
2016	Ecosystem 22	Director
2015	Ecosystem 21 ~ Canis Majoris	Director
2013	Ecosystem 20 ~ Stone	Director
2012	Ecosystem 19 ~ Gemini	Director
2011	Ecosystem 18 ~ Particle Dynamics	Director
2010	Ecosystem 17 ~ Castor	Director
2009	Ecosystem 16 ~ Geoid	Director
2006	Ecosystem 15 ~ Lunar Libration	Director
2005	Radiant Point	Director
2004	Ecosystem 14 ~ Stay	Director
2003	Ecosystem 13 ~ Umbra Cone	Director
2003	Ecosystem 12 ~ Conjunction	Director
2002	Ecosystem 11 ~ The Eccentricity	Director
1999	Haruyama Myomi Nobujo	Director
1999	Inner New Moon	Director
1996	Ecosystem 10 ~ A Dripping Moss	Director
1993	Ecosystem 9 ~ Quicksand	Director
1991	Ecosystem 8 ~ A chain Eclipse	Director
1990	Ecosystem 7 ~ A sedimentary Heat	Director
1989	Ecosystem 6 ~ A Sort of Mycelium	Director
1988	Ecosystem 5 ~ A Tremulous Stone	Director
1987	Ecosystem 4	Director
1986	Winter Horizon	Director
1985	Ecosystem 3	Director
1984	At the garden-in Winter	Director
1984	Aldebaran	Director
1983	Ecosystem 2	Director
1983	INSECT	Director
1982	Horizon of the winter	Director
1981	Ecosystem 1	Director
1979	Fomalhaut	Director
1979	Eusthenopteron	Director
1976	Alvileo	Director
1975	Study	Director
1974	Sea Lily	Director

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