Takashi Ito Movies

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

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...

"His films are like a roller-coaster. His way of throwing the act of seeing into utter confusion is an attack on the eyes in their corporeal...

“I cannot help feeling that some mysterious force is upsetting our emotional balance. The theme of my work over the last few years has been the...

"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...

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...

Without warning, the image of a girl wildly waving a baseball bat that slices through the air leaps to my mind. Such speed also reminds me of the...

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

The film follows the common sense storytelling of a dramatic film in which people meet other people and create relationships, but instead of...

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

"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...

Ito is one of the leading experimental filmmakers in Japan. He graduated from Art and Technology Department of Kyushu Institute of Design in 1983...

"Three Women, is an ambitious work designed to be shown on multiple screens in a movie theater. Moving a step forward from the use of multiple...

A film in which the one 60-story skyscraper that soars in the spaces between roofs spins with incredible speed. I centered the circumference with its...

"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...

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

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...

"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...

Looking for a place to die? This work depicts the interwining, melding and chaotic coming together of a story of a woman in black wandering trough a...

8mm short film.