Kenji Onishi Filmes

A colourful video feature about young criminals, sex scenes and their bitter ends.

Experimental short 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.

Short super8 film by Kenji Onishi.

Early work by Kenji Onishi.

A white glowing spirit shifts around darkness, distorted and breaking.

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...

Kenji Murakami seeks out legendary wildman director Kenji Onishi and arranges a meeting with director Yoko Oguchi. The meeting turns unexpectedly...

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

Kaoru Tachibana’s 8mm and 16mm filming course film workshop, 1996. Old Komaba campus Tokyo University student dormitory 3F. Shot & edited by...

8mm film by Yukiyasu Shimada. Performed by Shimada and Ichigo-chan. Shooting assistance by Kenji Onishi.

Digital Video

Experimental short by Kenji Onishi.

The Air-Conditioning System (1997) introduces us to a young man in his flat, and the ways of communication with his girlfriend. The sky is blue and...

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

A colourful video feature about young criminals, sex scenes and their bitter ends.