Kenji Onishi Movies

I returned to 8mm home movies for this compilation film, shot during the final year of my grandmother's life, and, beginning with footage of her...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

A brief 8mm film sketch of a screening at Hairo.

Music clip by Kenji Onishi.

A projector burns the frames of film. Re-photographing the image as it melts.

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

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...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

武甲風葬 2016 - "Buko Fuso" aka Funeral in the Wind, 8mm. Filmed at Mount Bukō (武甲山,...

A breath of light, a film poem by in-camera editing that is more sensory than experimental.

Fuchyako (Kumagai Fusako) eating/tasting a bacon in peculiar way.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.