Kenji Onishi

A behind the scenes documentary of Kenji Onishi's never completed 35mm feature film "Shiroyasha", shot between 2002 and 2004.

A very rare, Super 8 film by Fujiwara Sho (pen name Fujiwara Dragon), that was screened only one time. Some scenes were later reused in one of Kenji...

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...

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

Nakagawa shot “Coming Future” on the nights of December 24 and 25, 2010 in Shibuya, making it his location for an idealized Bohemia in...

Kenji Murakami seeks out legendary wildman director Kenji Onishi and arranges a meeting with director Yoko Oguchi. The meeting turns unexpectedly...

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....

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

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....

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

‎The world of Yukiyasu Shimada.

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...

Squareworld has a stark, minimal narrative: a drug-addicted man kidnaps a young woman from the hills, holds her prisoner and eventually kills her and...

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

VIDA, starring AV actress Hotaru Hazuki, is an erotic work aiming directly at the Hypothalamus. DEATH is an event that makes life emerge in a...

This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and...

Yasuda Satoru, 8mm. Singing, children, sea, mountains, travel, friends. Archive and diary like footage repeated and distorted multiple times - in the...

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...

Squareworld has a stark, minimal narrative: a drug-addicted man kidnaps a young woman from the hills, holds her prisoner and eventually kills her 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...

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...

Electronic Pinokio (2005) is playful again with its material (video) and the optical illusions you can produce and also provoke with it. But mainly...

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...

Sound of rain. Storm. Fixed camera. Time-lapse of skies and clouds. A playful silhouette against the light.

武甲風葬 2016 - "Buko Fuso" aka Funeral in the Wind, 8mm. Filmed at Mount Bukō (武甲山, Bukō-san) in Chichibu, Saitama, Japan. The summit...

武甲風葬 2016 - "Buko Fuso" aka Funeral in the Wind, 8mm. Filmed at Mount Bukō (武甲山, Bukō-san) in Chichibu, Saitama, Japan. The summit...

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

Kenji Onishi's 35mm feature film.

When give a digital camera to Peeping Tom...

Documentary about japanese painter Akira Tsuboi.

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

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

I filmed the sunrise on January the 1st, 1995. This short was originally meant to be a test roll for a feature film I was going to shoot. I really...

A behind the scenes documentary of Kenji Onishi's never completed 35mm feature film "Shiroyasha", shot between 2002 and 2004.

A girl named Fuchyako (Kumagai Fusako) is smoking a cigarette and singing to the background music of a blues song. Waterdrops.

Fuchyako (Kumagai Fusako) eating/tasting a bacon in peculiar way.

Film by Kenji Onishi. With friends. Mr. Yamase as main character, Sasakubo and Shinojima. And the girls having a good time. The camera is all you...

Kenji Onishi short film time-lapse projection at YIDFF 2013 (Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival).

Tanzan Shrine, also known as the Danzan Shrine.

Planet +1 Osaka. Screening associations of Silverpencils.

This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and...

Digital Video

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

Digital Video, Kanahama Natsuyo model.

Digital Video

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...

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

An expanded version of Dynamite Traverse Variations with the Chichibu Avantists members in Setouchi.

Experimental 8mm short by Yuki Kanaya and Kenji Onishi.

A psychological drama filmed when I was fond of Japanese detective stories. The monologue of a killer with a shovel inspired by real maniacs, from...

A private film from the Nagoya era. Single-8 lens fetishism photographing Nozomi Horikawa.

The evening sky that dyes into pink. Super8 early work by Kenji Onishi.

“N” as in Nurse. A man wandering in an abandoned hospital ward, reflections on Lost Time, Violence and traces of Nostalgia. 16mm film...

8mm film by Kenji Onishi.

A medium-length diary film edited and composed of private footage shot during a week in summer. Two years after moving to Tokyo, the director...

An alternative documentary to Shin Sasakubo's 'Chichibu Rest' made by Kenji Onishi, about Chichibu.

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

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

Lengthened version of the film.

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

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

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Short super8 film by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Early super8 location hunting sketches for what would then turn out to be the feature-lenght film "Squareworld" (1995), the sound recordings of this...

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

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Waiting for the first sunrise of 1995.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

8mm b/n film portrait of Kumiko Watanuki.

8mm film portrait of Fusako Kumagai.

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Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short 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....

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

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Music clip by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

An independent film group in Nagoya trying to work on making one feature film. Someone must have this film somewhere in his basement but really, who...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

A brief 8mm film sketch of a screening at Hairo.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Tales from a Super 8 workshop in Sangenjaya.

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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

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

‎The world of Yukiyasu Shimada.

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 cinematheque. Last time Fujica and 311 Fukushima. The case against perfection - Fujica Single-8.

Kenji Onishi films Takahiko Takayanagi, journalist of Yomiuri-paper, local TV. Ibaraki prefecture prefectural assembly member election. The barefoot...

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...

Squareworld has a stark, minimal narrative: a drug-addicted man kidnaps a young woman from the hills, holds her prisoner and eventually kills her and...

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

Silent art film utilizing landscape and light.

8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima. Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi. For 40 years, Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt....

8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima. Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi. For 40 years, Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt....

8mm experimental film directed by Minoru Shinojima. Shot and edited by Kenji Onishi. For 40 years, Minoru Shinojima has been opposed to mining Mt....

An improvised film study starring Kumiko Watanuki's solo play in an empty room.

An improvised film sketch with professional actors.

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

A super8 film sketch of a summer in Nagoya, at the beach with an independent film group.

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

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

Featuring Miyagawa Fumiko.

GIRLS or FU MI KO #4.

WALL or FU MI KO #8.

A breath of light, a film poem by in-camera editing that is more sensory than experimental. Image sketches made with short shots while swinging the...

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

8mm FILM Documentary 1979-2021 final version. Directing and script by Minoru Shinojima. Filmed and edited by Kenji Onishi. Cherishing the sadness of...

The director films his friends and an UFO at Chichibu.

The films of Oguchi Yoko are extremely personal. In addition, Oguchi herself has a special personality that makes her films very special. She is an...

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

An 8mm film drama. Written and directed by Fusako Kumagai.

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...

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...

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

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.

Yasuda Satoru, 8mm. Singing, children, sea, mountains, travel, friends. Archive and diary like footage repeated and distorted multiple times - in the...

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

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

A documentary on the Associations of Silverpencils screening hosted in Higashimurayama. The Film features 8mm films and interviews.

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

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

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

Silent art film utilizing landscape and light.

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

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...

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 film about Shin Sasakubo's childhood place Chichibu - home of Mt. Buko, known as the “mountain of the gods.” It is the most important...

A film about Shin Sasakubo's childhood place Chichibu - home of Mt. Buko, known as the “mountain of the gods.” It is the most important...

Squareworld has a stark, minimal narrative: a drug-addicted man kidnaps a young woman from the hills, holds her prisoner and eventually kills her and...

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....

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

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...

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

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

VIDA, starring AV actress Hotaru Hazuki, is an erotic work aiming directly at the Hypothalamus. DEATH is an event that makes life emerge in a...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

"The clouds are rushing by, and the architecture of men fit so well in that movement. The bricks. The light is harsh and blue. But in the night it is...

Onishi’s short Book Of Genesis (2002) shows us in an impressive way the connection between the sky and skylines, made of all that technical...

White and grey, a big screen with noises and voices: we hear a man suffering. The film follows the hardscrabble day-to-day exploits of a nameless...

Model Horikawa Nozomi, videogram by Kenji Onishi.