■Biography◻︎Yuri Muraoka was born in Tokyo in 1981. Dropped out of the high school attached to Japan Women's University, graduated the 26th class of Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image. Continues to create moving images and photographic works of "self-portraiture". All of her works are self-created and self-performed. Her major works are Schizophrenia (2016), Transparent, the world is. (2019) and so on. Her latest film Transparent, I am. (2020) won the Grand Prix at the 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. She’s been working on poetry since 2018. A mother of two daughters.

■Filmography of the director◻︎
“Transparent, I am.” (8mm Digital / 11min. / 2020 / experimental / Japan) -26th AVANCA Film Festival / INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION VIDEO / VÍDEO SPECIAL MENTION -ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2021 / Award for the Best Film for Tolerance-67th The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen
“IDEA” ( Digital / 17min. / 2019 / experimental / Japan)
“Transparent, the world is.” (16mm Digital / 7min. / 2019 / experimental / Japan)-Milwaukee Underground Film Festival Honorable Mentions(Emily Esperanza’s Picks) ,USA-6th Bogotá Experimental Film Festival Audience Award, Colombia
“Schizophrenia” (16mm / 10min. / 2016 / experimental / Japan) -19th Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema ,Honorary and non-hierarchical award , France. -12th Sapporo International Short Film Festival ,Special Mention by Warren Sin , Japan. -New Jersey International Film Festival , Honorable Mentions , USA. -ALTERNATIVE FILM/VIDEO 2016, Selection of Important Works from the Festival, Serbia. -ASK? Moving Image Festival 2016 , Accepted ,Japan. -Image Forum Festival 2016 Japan Tomorrow , Excellence Prize ,Japan.
“Origin of flowers” (16mm / 7min. / 2008 / experimental / Japan)
“yuRi=paRadox -Sleep is equal to awake-” (16mm / 30min. / 2006 / experimental / Japan)
“L’INTERDIT II” (16mm / 7min. / 2003 / experimental / Japan) -SENDAI ART ANNUAL 2005 , Grand Prix (smt Prize)& Jury's Special Prize (Awarded by Koutarou Iizawa etc.), Japan.
“The Miracle” (16mm / 18min. / 2003 / experimental / Japan) - ASK? Moving Image Festival 2005 , Accepted, ,Japan. - Broadband Art and Contents Award Japan (BACA=JA) 2003 , Excellence Prize,etc, Japan. - Image Forum Institute of Moving image 26th Graduation Exhibition , Grand Prix, Japan.
“The reason why I do not eat meat I” (8mm / 5min. / 2002 / experimental / Japan) -5th 21st Century Asia Design Competition , Accepted, ,Japan.