Jeremy Yamamura: Mutant Session
Jeremy Yamamura
is a 29-year-old French creative director and designer.
Jeremy mainly does moving images and most specifically music video direction, but he also does graphic design and art direction. He has always been passionate of both video and music, so he finds the perfect balance in creating music videos.
Jeremy grew up in a small city near Bordeaux, France and now based in Tokyo, Japan.
He studied Visual Communication in Bordeaux. His course was focused on moving images and video. After graduation, he decided to move to London because he really loved the London music scene, and he wanted to be a part of it, visually. He also wanted a fresh start for his career. In London, he worked as a freelance graphic designer and motion graphic artist on various projects. He also collaborated with various artists, from acoustic guitar players to drum and bass major artists. Late 2006, he had the opportunity to move to Tokyo, so he just did.
When Jeremy arrived in Tokyo in 2006, he first worked as creative freelancer for various projects. In 2007, he met Yuichiro Mizuno, who runs a creative production company, and in 2008 he joined the creative company Denbak-Fano Design as moving images director and graphic designer/art director.
Denbak-Fano Design is a great company based in the creative area of Naka-Meguro, Tokyo and also in Osaka. All the members are longtime friends, most of them studied in the same school, so it’s more like a creative unit rather than a corporate company. There’s a total of 12 staff, working on exciting projects such as music videos, commercial movies, event movies, VJ, interactive movies, but also web projects, graphic design and art direction, and event producing. Denbak-Fano Design has over 10 years of experience and always delivers a neat product in each field of his production.
In 2010, Jeremy directed the music video Mutant Session, which won the Best Music Video Award at the New York International Film Festival.
Mutant Session is the music video he directed for an underground electro-hiphop Japanese band. Denbak-Fano Design produced the video. The song is a collaboration between a Japanese and Swedish band, the video was produced in Tokyo, directed by a French director, and won the Best Music Video award in New York: a real international project! Based on the title, the video takes place in a dirty and scary abandoned human mutant museum during a stormy night. When the music starts, all the creatures stored in the jars come back to life. The video is a mixed-media artwork: using video as well as stop-motion animation, drawing, paintings, collages, and all kind of craft materials. They shot the artist with their heads being squashed against a sheet of glass, creating weird faces.
Jeremy was featured in top 100 Japanese moving images creator 2008 and 2010, and his work has been played and reviewed in various festival and medias:
Onedotzero (London), Bornshots (Denmark), NYIFF (USA), Lesinrocks, Canal+ and Protoclip (France).