Kenji Onishi Movies

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

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...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

It is all flickering neon-light with Aquarium City (1996), a feature film of 76 minutes, using black inserts and the structure of the tatami again....

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada and Ichigo-chan. Shooting assistance by Kenji Onishi.

Shooting began with pointing the camera at the sunset seen through the window at home, and continued until all the 8mm film I had was used up. The...

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Dynamite Traverse Variations Tour with members of Chichibu Avantists (Shin Sasakubo × Daisuke Aoki × Haruka Shimizu). In the remains of...

With the core members Shin Sasakubo and Daisuke Aoki, as well as a revolving set of members depending on the contents of the work, the CHICHIBU...

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

Zetcho is a feature shot on film, including the typical colouring of washed-out white and blue. Again Onishi brings together the couple’s...

‎The world of Yukiyasu Shimada.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Music clip by Kenji Onishi.