Norman Yonemoto

The sky looms in the background of all human activity. It is elementary then that artists should be preoccupied with a phenomenon whose ageless...

Framed is presented in a single-channel video using two elements. The first element is the film footage that was found by the artists at the U.S....

Europe’s enchantment with American consumer culture is depicted, as well-known European architectural landmarks – the Eiffel Tower, the...

This stylized narrative is the first in the Yonemotos' Soap Opera Series,in which they employ the traditional syntax and codes of melodrama to...

Featuring performances by artists Tony Oursler and Mike Kelley, Garage Sale II moves between a couple’s sexually dysfunctional relationship and...

Spalding Gray comes to LA to perform a set of monologues.

In this tour-de-force of stylized deconstruction, the Yonemotos rewrite a traditional narrative of desire — boy meets girl, boy loses girl....

Spalding Gray comes to LA to perform a set of monologues.

Brenda, vivacious leader of the "Satins", a fun-loving group of pretty high school girls, searches for deadly vengeance against the gang members who...

The story of Navy man Mike Jones who goes through fantasies and memories before being caught but finding his ideal man.

The story of Navy man Mike Jones who goes through fantasies and memories before being caught but finding his ideal man.

"The Filth and the Fury" is a 4-hour compilation of scenes from some of HIS Studio's gay adult films over the years of 1974-1984: 501 (1982), Alley...

Football tight end Mark schemes into Sean's tight end, among other seduction-themed vignettes.

While still a student at UCLA, Norman Yonemoto arrived in Berkeley with a 16mm camera and discovered People’s Park in turmoil. His compelling...

A group of men gather on an empty soundstage and fulfill each other's deepest desires.

A country boy looking for some action in Los Angeles meets a man on the outs of a relationship.

A country boy looking for some action in Los Angeles meets a man on the outs of a relationship.

A country boy looking for some action in Los Angeles meets a man on the outs of a relationship.

A country boy looking for some action in Los Angeles meets a man on the outs of a relationship.

Two bored friends swap stories about times they've seduced 'straight' men.

Two bored friends swap stories about times they've seduced 'straight' men.

Two bored friends swap stories about times they've seduced 'straight' men.

A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that she has a unique and special talent, which causes her no end of trouble.

Spalding Gray comes to LA to perform a set of monologues.

Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of...

Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of...

Steeped in irony, Made in Hollywood depicts the personal and cultural mediation of reality and fantasy, desire and identity, by the myths of...

In this tour-de-force of stylized deconstruction, the Yonemotos rewrite a traditional narrative of desire — boy meets girl, boy loses girl....

In the novella Blinky The Friendly Hen (1978), artist Jeffrey Vallance documented the supermarket purchase of a frozen chicken and its burial in the...

Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and...

Clip Joint is a video assemblage of clips and short sequences from motion pictures mostly produced before 1964. Yonemoto isolates these clips from...

Using the syntax of daytime soap operas, Green Card tells the story of Sumie, a Japanese artist who marries an American surfer/filmmaker to enable...

Created as part of the Yonemotos’ Soap Opera Series (together with Green Card: American Romance), this postmodern tale navigates artistic and...

Japan in Paris in L.A. centres on Saeki Yuzo, an early twentieth-century Japanese artist who makes a pilgrimage to Paris to seek his artistic...

From hard hats to surfers, students to street hustlers, Choice Cuts shows you Southern California from a distinctly male perspective. It's U.S.D.A....

"Country Bumpkin" Jeff Rodgers is walking along a country road when The Chief picks him up in a little red convertible. Jeff is told he has been...

"Country Bumpkin" Jeff Rodgers is walking along a country road when The Chief picks him up in a little red convertible. Jeff is told he has been...

Lovers Ted and Joe are in constant pursuit of tricks, even though they won't have sex with each other.

13 horny, hot and super hung studs mix it up in non-stop action.

Set in Los Angeles, Brothers tells the story of Vince, a brooding, mustachioed stud who’s visited by his kid brother Rick, a soldier serving in...

Set in Los Angeles, Brothers tells the story of Vince, a brooding, mustachioed stud who’s visited by his kid brother Rick, a soldier serving in...

Set in Los Angeles, Brothers tells the story of Vince, a brooding, mustachioed stud who’s visited by his kid brother Rick, a soldier serving in...

The death of Gary brings back the memories of Terry Walker who idolized him.

GARAGE SALE is a campy feature centered on a story of marital upheaval between drag queen Goldie Glitters and her fair-haired husband, Hero. A...

GARAGE SALE is a campy feature centered on a story of marital upheaval between drag queen Goldie Glitters and her fair-haired husband, Hero. A...

GARAGE SALE is a campy feature centered on a story of marital upheaval between drag queen Goldie Glitters and her fair-haired husband, Hero. A...

Pleasure Beach is the story of two lifeguards, one gay, one straight. Their friendship is platonic, though Todd, the gay one, wishes it were not.

Contestants in a major track competition find they can score off the track as well.

Contestants in a major track competition find they can score off the track as well.

Four tales of sexual intrigue tied together by a narrator.

Al Parker goes on the prowl to find models for his new hardcore skin magazine.

Two buddies start out on a camping/ski trip that turns into one of the hottest sex trips ever captured on film. Bob and Sam are horny young studs who...

Two buddies start out on a camping/ski trip that turns into one of the hottest sex trips ever captured on film. Bob and Sam are horny young studs who...

The lives of a porno photographer and his rugged lover are disrupted when a former beau from France comes to visit the U.S.

Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and...

Deconstructing the myth of Oedipus within the framework of an ancient Japanese folk story, the Yonemotos craft a highly charged discourse of loss and...