Kenji Onishi Movies

Production and sale of Fujichrome RT200 sound film stock ended in 1999. It was the ultimate analogue technology allowing audio to be simultaneously...

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

A collection of Single 8 bloopers sprinkled with bleach to dissolve the emulsion. It is also a work that contains personal grudges.

Out of Frame (1996) plays with your expectations and the way how we are used to “read” pictures and their framing. A woman is rubbing...

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Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

Tanzan Shrine, also known as the Danzan Shrine.

Tales from a Super 8 workshop in Sangenjaya.

Kenji Onishi's 16mm independent road movie. A couple and their winter journey through the city and a desolate countryside.

A Burning Star depicts the physicality of destruction and disappearance through images of the Japanese filmmaker's father who dies and is cremated....

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

The director films his friends and an UFO at Chichibu.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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.

Silent art film utilizing landscape and light.