Kenji Onishi Movies

An attempt to let one's identity emerge by piercing fragments of 8mm film shot over some 20 years. The filmmaker's muttering and breathing...

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

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

An improvised film sketch with professional actors.

武甲風葬 2016 - "Buko Fuso" aka Funeral in the Wind, 8mm. Filmed at Mount Bukō (武甲山,...

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

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...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

The plain has a perfect starry sky at night. The sky is a message to existence. 16mm film by Kenji Onishi.

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...

Experimental 8mm short by Yuki Kanaya and Kenji Onishi.

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...

Digital Video

I filmed the sunrise on January the 1st, 1995. This short was originally meant to be a test roll for a feature film I was going to shoot. I really...