Kenji Onishi Movies

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...

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

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

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...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

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

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

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

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...

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...

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...

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