Kenji Onishi Movies

Featuring Miyagawa Fumiko.

Filmed in Vancouver, time-lapse pictures of the view from the hotel in October.

Memories, death, funeral. Recorded in summer 1992-1994.

A recording of a girl (Nozomi Horikawa) playing with "Shironeko" on a sunny day. "Kuroneko" appears. A private cinema with kittens and trees swaying...

Kaoru Tachibana’s 8mm and 16mm filming course film workshop, 1996. Old Komaba campus Tokyo University student dormitory 3F. Shot & edited by...

Lengthened version of the film.

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

Kenji Onishi's 35mm feature film.

A girl and a boy, a chance encounter with the camera. She invites the photographer to her room. Once inside, the woman takes off her clothers and...

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...

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

Silent art film utilizing landscape and light.

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

The village, the street, the house you spent your childhood in and where memories always mean flowers, nature and movement in a dark surrounding...

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