Kenji Onishi Movies

A summary of the 2011 shorts diary films by the filmmaker, wasting away meters and meters of 8mm film.

A collection of Single 8 bloopers sprinkled with bleach to dissolve the emulsion. It is also a work that contains personal grudges.

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

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

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...

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...

It is all flickering neon-light with Aquarium City (1996), a feature film of 76 minutes, using black inserts and the structure of the tatami again....

8mm b/n film portrait of Kumiko Watanuki.

Experimental Super 8 short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

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...

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.