Kenji Onishi Filmes

A Burning Star depicts the physicality of destruction and disappearance through images of the Japanese filmmaker's father who dies and is cremated....

Silent art film utilizing landscape and light.

Squareworld has a stark, minimal narrative: a drug-addicted man kidnaps a young woman from the hills, holds her prisoner and eventually kills her and...

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

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.

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

8mm film by Kenji Onishi.

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

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

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...

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...

Summer in my hometown captured with an 8mm camera. Green light erodes and relieves the drunken times

A brief 8mm film sketch of a screening at Hairo.

GIRLS or FU MI KO #4.

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