Takashi ITO


Nationality: Japanese

ITO was born in Fukuoka in 1956. While studying in university, his experimental film SPACY (1981), premiered at Toshio MATSUMOTO Seminar, under whom Ito studied while a student at the Kyushu Institute of Design, was critically acclaimed in both domestic and international film festivals. Through his works, ITO explores the world of surrealistic visuals and the subconscious madness and absurdity that people hold within. His main works include ZONE (1996), A Silent Day (2002), Last Angel (2014), Three Women (2016), and Toward Zero (2021).

"Film is capable of presenting unrealistic world as a vivid reality and creating a strange space peculiar to the media. My major intention is to change the ordinary every day life scenes and draw the audience (myself) into a vortex of supernatural illusion by exercising the magic of films." (Takashi Ito, in Image Forum, Oct.1984)

5 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION

APPARATUS “M”
1996 / color / sound / single screen / 6' 00 / 45 €
distribution: 16mm
ZONE
1995 / color / sound / single screen / 12' 00 / 55 €
distribution: 16mm
WALL
1987 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 7' 00 / 45 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
DRILL
1983 / 16mm / b&w / silent / single screen / 5' 00 / 39 €
distribution: 16mm
SPACY
1981 / 16mm / tinted b&w / sound / single screen / 9' 00 / 45 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server