Kenji Onishi Movies

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

A nostalgic summer festival. Revisiting some dark footage through the images of memory. As an afterimage, it appears like a ghost.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

A colourful video feature about young criminals, sex scenes and their bitter ends.

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

A man fingering the girl before killing her. Camera cuts to blue sky and cat. A man choking his girl. Onishi at his usual with framing, extreme...

A white glowing spirit shifts around darkness, distorted and breaking.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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...

A summary of the 2011 shorts diary films by the filmmaker, wasting away meters and meters of 8mm film.