Kenji Onishi Movies

An attempt to let one's identity emerge by piercing fragments of 8mm film shot over some 20 years. The filmmaker's muttering and breathing...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

The plain has a perfect starry sky at night. The sky is a message to existence. 16mm film by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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

Lengthened version of the film.

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

Experimental film directed by Kenji Onishi

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...

Color sound. Produced in 1993. Poetic images that show beautiful colors. A diary movie shot at the end of one summer.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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

Depiction of the physicality of destruction and disappearance through images of the Japanese filmmaker’s father who dies and is cremated.