Kenji Onishi Movies

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

Everyday events illuminated by the summer sun, seemingly insignificant observations, are brought to life by an 8mm camera. The changing sky, the...

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

An experimental 8mm night film made of handheld urban fragments.

"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...

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

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

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Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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...

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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...

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...