Takashi Ito Movies

  • 2024
    Distant Voices

    Distant Voices

    Distant Voices

    02024HD

    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...

    Distant Voices
  • 1953
    Red-Light Bases

    Red-Light Bases

    Red-Light Bases

    01953HD

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

    Red-Light Bases
  • 1996
    Apparatus M

    Apparatus M

    Apparatus M

    3.3331996HD

    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...

    Apparatus M
  • 2016
    Three Women

    Three Women

    Three Women

    02016HD

    "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...

    Three Women
  • 1989
    The Mummy's Dream

    The Mummy's Dream

    The Mummy's Dream

    5.751989HD

    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...

    The Mummy's Dream
  • 1990
    Venus

    Venus

    Venus

    51990HD

    "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...

    Venus
  • 1999
    A Silent Day

    A Silent Day

    A Silent Day

    9.51999HD

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

    A Silent Day
  • 2006
    Unbalance

    Unbalance

    Unbalance

    6.72006HD

    “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...

    Unbalance
  • 1983
    Flash

    Flash

    Flash

    01983HD

    A video short created in collaboration with Takashi Inagaki.

    Flash
  • 2006
    Tokyo Loop

    Tokyo Loop

    Tokyo Loop

    82006HD

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

    Tokyo Loop
  • 2001
    Double

    Double

    Double

    52001HD

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

    Double
  • 2009
    The Dead Dance

    The Dead Dance

    The Dead Dance

    52009HD

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

    The Dead Dance
  • 2021
    Toward Zero

    Toward Zero

    Toward Zero

    02021HD

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

    Toward Zero
  • 2010
    A Sweet Life

    A Sweet Life

    A Sweet Life

    02010HD

    A girl goes out destroying things.

    A Sweet Life
  • 2014
    Last Angel

    Last Angel

    Last Angel

    02014HD

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

    Last Angel
  • 1977
    Timespace

    Timespace

    Timespace

    01977HD

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

    Timespace
  • 1980
    Movement 3

    Movement 3

    Movement 3

    01980HD

    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...

    Movement 3
  • 1979
    Movement 2

    Movement 2

    Movement 2

    01979HD

    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...

    Movement 2
  • 1978
    Movement

    Movement

    Movement

    01978HD

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

    Movement
  • 1983
    Face

    Face

    Face

    01983HD

    8mm short film.

    Face