Kenji Onishi Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

8mm b/n film portrait of Kumiko Watanuki.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

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...