Movies

“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...

"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...

A field of wilted sunflowers, a group of public housing units turned into ruins. Two girls who are like alter egos of each other. They wander around...

A girl goes out destroying things.

A work produced for the Morimura Yasumasa Exhibition at the Yokohama Museum of Art, (April 6 to June, 1996). It was shown in an old-style theater...

"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...

"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...

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...

Fragmentary stories of two students with a video camera and an old butoh dancer who finds himself followed by a woman are interwoven.

A series of 16 "short stories" created by the creator's group Images Forum.

"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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

8mm short film.

A test work for SPACY. I had a mad interest in the kind of sensation of visual movement gained from subsequent rushings into the mise-en-abyme space...