Takashi Ito Movies

"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...

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...

“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...

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...

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

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

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.

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

A video short created in collaboration with Takashi Inagaki.

"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...

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

A girl goes out destroying things.

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.