Kenji Onishi Movies

Memories, death, funeral. Recorded in summer 1992-1994.

A super8 film sketch of a summer in Nagoya, at the beach with an independent film group.

A recording of a girl (Nozomi Horikawa) playing with "Shironeko" on a sunny day. "Kuroneko" appears. A private cinema with kittens and trees swaying...

Kaoru Tachibana’s 8mm and 16mm filming course film workshop, 1996. Old Komaba campus Tokyo University student dormitory 3F. Shot & edited by...

Lengthened version of the film.

An expanded version of Dynamite Traverse Variations with the Chichibu Avantists members in Setouchi.

A mess of time-lapse and bulb photography using Kodachrome 25 reversal film.

Kenji Onishi's 35mm feature film.

White and grey, a big screen with noises and voices: we hear a man suffering. The film follows the hardscrabble day-to-day exploits of a nameless...

A girl and a boy, a chance encounter with the camera. She invites the photographer to her room. Once inside, the woman takes off her clothers and...

The Air-Conditioning System (1997) introduces us to a young man in his flat, and the ways of communication with his girlfriend. The sky is blue and...

Blue Max (1997) shows a woman looking out of a window, but also working with extreme close-ups: The street, her neck, the window, her knees, the...

The Underground Water (1996) comes as an ode to water in its forms and to that connected sounds, ice, drinking, mirroring, bathing, washing, pearling...

Silent art film utilizing landscape and light.

Summer in my hometown captured with an 8mm camera. Green light erodes and relieves the drunken times

The village, the street, the house you spent your childhood in and where memories always mean flowers, nature and movement in a dark surrounding...