Takashi Ito

A series of 16 “short stories” created by the creator’s group Images Forum.

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 ...

Episode 1 “Noise”, Episode 2 “Bloody Mary”, Episode 3 “Homemade”

This is a film about a man without a face. His arms and legs, bound with ropes, the disabled man is still without even a shudder in a white room. ...

“A long time ago, I would often dream of the uncanny and mystical landscape that appears in moonlight. Irrational landscapes and spaces ...

“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 ...

Haunting light and haunted spaces, otherworldly movement and abstracted time. A ghost visits an apartment complex.

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

I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was ...

“The further developed and completed version of a 15-second advertisement for an interior design firm on which I had worked. It repeats ...

“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 ...

“With this work, I developed/fleshed out the idea I had when making GHOST of peeling only the skin from various objects in the room, ...

8mm short film, presumably an expansion of Drill.

“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 ...

A video short created in collaboration with Takashi Inagaki.

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

A woman’s face disappearing behind, and emerging from, a pair of hands. Flashing lights. An empty building full of dark hallways. Designs drawn ...

“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 ...

“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 ...