Takashi ITO

Nationality: Japanese

Takashi Ito is a Japanese experimental filmmaker, born in 1956, renowned for his avant-garde short films. His cinematic style and interest in experimental film were profoundly influenced by his mentor, Toshio Matsumoto, under whom Ito studied while a student at the Kyushu Institute of Design.

His first 16mm short film, Spacy, was completed in 1981 and screened in numerous museums both in Japan and internationally, as well as at various film festivals and universities. Throughout his career, Ito has directed over 20 short films, many of which have been featured in film festivals and retrospective exhibitions of his work. His debut feature-length film, Toward Zero, premiered at the Image Forum Festival in 2021 and was theatrically released in Japan in August 2022.


"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 / 42 €
distribution: 16mm
ZONE
1995 / color / sound / single screen / 12' 00 / 52 €
distribution: 16mm
WALL
1987 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 7' 00 / 42 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server
DRILL
1983 / 16mm / b&w / silent / single screen / 5' 00 / 37 €
distribution: 16mm
SPACY
1981 / 16mm / tinted b&w / sound / single screen / 9' 00 / 42 €
distribution: 16mm or Digital file on server