Kenji Onishi Movies

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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...

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...

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada himself and the girl is Ichigo-chan.

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

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....

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

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

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

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

GIRLS or FU MI KO #4.

Model Horikawa Nozomi, videogram by Kenji Onishi.

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

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...

8mm film by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.