
Directing
Randall Okita
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Randall Okita is a Japanese Canadian artist and filmmaker known for creating work that involves rich visual language and innovative approaches to storytelling. His work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions, awarded internationally, and screened around the world. Recent work includes directing the feature film See for Me (premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival), writing and creating the virtual reality experience The Book of Distance (Sundance, Venice, Tribeca) with the National Film Board of Canada, and showing A Place Between, a solo exhibition of artwork at the Prince Takamado Gallery in Tokyo. Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Okita lives and works in Toronto and Japan.
Acting credits
NRAn eccentric documentary crew treks across the vast roadways of Alberta, Canada to document monuments, museums, and other roadside curios. Armed with only a loose idea of the project’s final form, the wayward director struggles to manage a slew of messy personal entanglements and rivalries embroiling her collaborators. They look for meaning in the landscape, but their search turns inward as they’re inspired to reckon with their own lives.
Alberta Number One
2024
4.2This short animation presents the haunting story of two brothers who share the scars, though not the memories, of an untold history that has driven them to existential extremes.
The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer
2014
Evoking themes of protest, destruction, and resurrection, this beguiling new work from visual artist Randall Okita transposes three-dimensional kinetic sculptures to the cinema screen.
Portrait as a Random Act of Violence
2013
Behind the camera
6.0When blind former Olympic skier Sophie Scott cat-sits in a secluded mansion, she gets caught in the crossfire of a home invasion scheme. She must rely on a sighted Army veteran via the See for Me app to help her survive the night.
See for Me
2022
5.8A teenage thief tries to leave town to escape the violence that threatens him and he people he loves.
The Lockpicker
2018
5.8A teenage thief tries to leave town to escape the violence that threatens him and he people he loves.
The Lockpicker
2018
5.8A teenage thief tries to leave town to escape the violence that threatens him and he people he loves.
The Lockpicker
2018
No Contract is a visceral video that combines elements of performance, sculptural cinema and documentary to explore themes of urgency, isolation and escape, as well as the notions of torment and renewal, desire and destruction.
No Contract
2012
No Contract is a visceral video that combines elements of performance, sculptural cinema and documentary to explore themes of urgency, isolation and escape, as well as the notions of torment and renewal, desire and destruction.
No Contract
2012
Fish in Barrel depicts a young man facing his demons as his struggle erupts into visions that question what lies below the surface.
Fish in Barrel
2009
Fish in Barrel depicts a young man facing his demons as his struggle erupts into visions that question what lies below the surface.
Fish in Barrel
2009
NRThis short documentary gives us insight into the singing prowess of renowned tenor Ben Heppner, one of Canada’s pre-eminent musical ambassadors.
Ben Heppner: Moving Through Music
2016
NRThis short documentary gives us insight into the singing prowess of renowned tenor Ben Heppner, one of Canada’s pre-eminent musical ambassadors.
Ben Heppner: Moving Through Music
2016
A research student who has a psychotic breakdown and is remanded to the custody of her aunt and uncle in a small town.
Menace
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The Book of Distance
2020
4.2This short animation presents the haunting story of two brothers who share the scars, though not the memories, of an untold history that has driven them to existential extremes.
The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer
2014
4.2This short animation presents the haunting story of two brothers who share the scars, though not the memories, of an untold history that has driven them to existential extremes.
The Weatherman and the Shadowboxer
2014
NRMachine with Wishbone is an entirely live action movie shot without special effects, featuring the work of internationally celebrated artist Arthur Ganson. Using innovative camera choreography, photo sculpture, and kinetic sculpture, Machine with Wishbone tells the tale of a stoic mechanical wishbone on its journey through a world of snoring beds, paper birds, and places you have to see to believe.
Machine With Wishbone
2008
NRMachine with Wishbone is an entirely live action movie shot without special effects, featuring the work of internationally celebrated artist Arthur Ganson. Using innovative camera choreography, photo sculpture, and kinetic sculpture, Machine with Wishbone tells the tale of a stoic mechanical wishbone on its journey through a world of snoring beds, paper birds, and places you have to see to believe.
Machine With Wishbone
2008
Evoking themes of protest, destruction, and resurrection, this beguiling new work from visual artist Randall Okita transposes three-dimensional kinetic sculptures to the cinema screen.
Portrait as a Random Act of Violence
2013
Evoking themes of protest, destruction, and resurrection, this beguiling new work from visual artist Randall Okita transposes three-dimensional kinetic sculptures to the cinema screen.
Portrait as a Random Act of Violence
2013
