Daïchi Saïto Movies

The film explores familiar landscape imagery Saïto and Goldstein share in their neighbourhood at the foot of Mount-Royal Park in...

An exploration into perceptual processes in the act of seeing and listening, Chiasmus takes film as a metaphor for the breathing body, through the...

Accompanied by an extraordinary improvisational score by Montreal-based musician Jason Sharp, Daïchi Saïto’s Engram of Returning is...

The expansive mountainscapes of the Andes are the basis for this new, 35mm film by Daïchi Saïto. Once again propelled by the free,...

A vegetal portrait in which the shape of trees becomes pure color, light and shadow, an organic form in a permanent dialogue with abstraction.


A re-photography in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux, painted, scratched and burned film loops...

A visual metaphor for creative process as a sustained state of flux, whereby the deconstruction and reconfiguration of source material manifest...

Due to the SOMA secret society, Tokyo is under a chaotic order of destruction. People who have a high amount of MTE in them are kidnapped and...

Appropriating a brief fragment from a 35mm print of an old Kung Fu movie, Never a Foot Too Far, Even is an action movie without action. Presented in...

Juxtaposition of seeing and sounding, sky and stone and all that's in between. A short walk in an alleyway, to hear vision sounding images, blessed...

Short film by Daïchi Saïto to celebrate Anthology Film Archives’ 50th Anniversary

A direct record with on-screen edition in which beings, objects, light, shadow, and color are portrayed in a program, as if they were part of an...