Takashi Ito Movies

"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 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...

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...

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

"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...

In the final scene of my last work, A SILENT DAY, a girl was filming herself with an 8mm camera on a railway bridge. Although the film doesn’t...

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 short created in collaboration with Takashi Inagaki.

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

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

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

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

A girl goes out destroying things.

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

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

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...

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...

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

8mm short film.