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...

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

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Silent art film utilizing landscape and light.

Kenji Onishi's 35mm feature film.

Diary reportage shot between February and September 2019.

Memories, death, funeral. Recorded in summer 1992-1995.

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

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...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

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

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...

With a curious eye, he saw a UFO passing over the neighbor's roof, and strange things began to happen around him. The taste of the tap water changed,...

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...

With a curious eye, he saw a UFO passing over the neighbor's roof, and strange things began to happen around him. The taste of the tap water changed,...