UMMMI.

Biography

Umi Ishihara (UMMMI.) is an artist and film director based in Tokyo and London. She makes experimental narrative films and video installations that centre around love, personal memories, womanhood and wider societal issues. Her works have been exhibited by Centre Pompidou Film Festival Hors Pistes Tokyo, CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival exhibition, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019, and commissioned by the BFI/BBC.

Directed

1. Gravity and Radiance (2022) — Director
2. Rinsaga — Director
3. Desktop Treasure (2016) — Director
4. Pains of Forever (2016) — Director
5. post benning generation (2012) — Director
6. Disgraced Heaven (2017) — Director
7. Angel at the Dump (2013) — Director
8. House of Psychic (2014) — Director
9. The Smiths (2015) — Director
10. The Garden Apartment (2018) — Director
11. The Pioneer (2018) — Director
12. Janitor of Lunacy (2019) — Director
13. Opening Demo (2014) — Director
14. Over Pass (2014) — Director
15. Hotel Shakespeare (2016) — Director
16. UMMMI.'s Lonely Girl (2017) — Director
17. Acid Pigeon (2019) — Director
18. Rose City (2018) — Director
19. Garden of the Lower Depths (2016) — Director
20. LOST WEDDING RING BUT NOW FOUND (2016) — Director
21. Acceleration Map (2020) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Us and the Night (2024) — Umi (as Umi Ishihara)
2. The Smiths (2015)
3. UMMMI.'s Lonely Girl (2017)