Takashi Ito Movies

Three high school students are running through their adolescence, feeling frustrated and empty at the reality of being 18 years old. The film depicts...

I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was...

"The further developed and completed version of a 15-second advertisement for an interior design firm on which I had worked. It repeats over and over...

A depiction of a girl’s uneasy state of mind as it wavers between life and death.

"The majority of my 8-mm works were made for the three-minute "Personal Focus" film special put on in Fukuoka. This film is an animation of...

"In the early afternoon, a mother holding her child stands still in the park of a housing project. The kind of sight that is a symbol of beauty and...

"The filming of the entrance to the company dormitory in which the film-maker was living. Centering the film on one pillar, he warps the spaces to...

The filmic version of a city in which all surface beauty has rotted away. In order to find images of death like landscapes of the city from which...

A video installation that Takashi Ito exhibited in January 2009 in Kyoto.

"A long time ago, I would often dream of the uncanny and mystical landscape that appears in moonlight. Irrational landscapes and spaces filled with...

Haunting light and haunted spaces, otherworldly movement and abstracted time. A ghost visits an apartment complex.

This is a film about a man without a face. His arms and legs, bound with ropes, the disabled man is still without even a shudder in a white room. A...

A video short created in collaboration with Takashi Inagaki.

"Ryuta is 5 years old. Even though he is my son, I sometimes wonder what this small person is to me. Even though I see his joys and sadnesses and...

There are three works in the MOVEMENT series. At the time, I was fascinated by the ability of an 8-mm camera to shoot frame-by-frame. I enjoyed...

"I stuck landscape photographs on the faces of a cube and shot them frame-by-frame. It looks like the box is forever revolving, but in truth it only...

A film of the interactive video installation and performance art Double/Bunshin that Ito did in collaboration with Butoh dancer Setsuko Yamada in...

Made when I was simply beside myself with excitement from seeing Toshio Matsumoto's ATMAN. I placed photographs of Noh masks in a variety of...

Early 8mm short film, first of three works in the Movement series.

Takashi Ito's first film. Little information exists other than specifying it as a "collaboration."