Takashi Ishida

With materials originally designed for use in an installation, this piece is sustained by the dual processes of editing and dismantling. The film combines frame-by-frame shooting, flickers effects reshooting, trace of sunlight, and trick-effects using wires to create parallel structures of juxtaposition. Even as it imitates the repetitions and transitions of natural phenomenon, the film escapes the world of natural.

Created while staying in Canada and England through a grant from the Gotoh Memorial Foundation. “Reflection” was produced from uncontrollable natural light rather than artificial studio light, and in this way functions as a new venture into documentary.

Experimental work by Takashi Ishida

Experimental work by Takashi Ishida

Gestalt was shot over the course of a year in a Tokyo dormitory. Each day, Ishida would paint on the wall and photograph it using the available light from the window. The 7-minute long film, which is accompanied by haunting organ music composed by J.S. Bach, consists of those several seconds of film Ishida shot daily.

Experimental 16mm short by Takashi Ishida.

With materials originally designed for use in an installation, this piece is sustained by the dual processes of editing and dismantling. The film combines frame-by-frame shooting, flickers effects reshooting, trace of sunlight, and trick-effects using wires to create parallel structures of juxtaposition. Even as it imitates the repetitions and transitions of natural phenomenon, the film escapes the world of natural.

Created while staying in Canada and England through a grant from the Gotoh Memorial Foundation. “Reflection” was produced from uncontrollable natural light rather than artificial studio light, and in this way functions as a new venture into documentary.

Experimental work by Takashi Ishida

Experimental work by Takashi Ishida

Gestalt was shot over the course of a year in a Tokyo dormitory. Each day, Ishida would paint on the wall and photograph it using the available light from the window. The 7-minute long film, which is accompanied by haunting organ music composed by J.S. Bach, consists of those several seconds of film Ishida shot daily.

Experimental 16mm short by Takashi Ishida.

Emaki 2 is a seminal early drawing animation by Takashi Ishida, created as his graduation project for the 19th term of the Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image.

The walls of video rental shops in Japan are lined with hundreds upon hundreds of animation DVDs, but experimental and art animation on DVD are rare. To remedy this situation, Image Forum put together this showcase of the work of contemporary avant-garde animators trained in Kyoto and Tokyo.

Short film by Takashi Ishida.

Early experimental animation by Takashi Ishida