Takashi Makino

Engine (2023)

Engine materializes Liz Harris's self-confessed obsession with engine sounds from cars and trains, and noise explosions heard at drag races. For Harris, that is the sound of excess, power, sex, destruction, capitalism, and oil becoming an airborne pollutan ...

Anti-Cosmos (2022)

A physical film for showing at cinema. The soundtrack, which was mainly produced in the range of frequencies below 1000Khz, physically vibrates the viewer's body. Anti-cosmos means similar with Noise, the power that breakthrough the cosmos/order. Inspired ...

Microcosmos (2022)

"Micro Cosmos" is an non-narrative experimental documentary film that records 100 collages produced by Makino in 2021 in chronological order. ...

Film for Shade (2022)

Experimental film for Grouper by Takashi Makino ...

from unconsciousness (2021)

All images by participants of online workshop by Takashi Makino "Structure of Universe". Edit by Takashi Makino (in 2 days). ...

Double Phase (2020)

Filmed entirely on location in Australia, Double Phase follows a discrete visual chronology captured by Takashi Makino. It considers how the complexity of 'natural world' continues to be reductively framed within contemporary society. Pushing back against ...

Nivhek (2019)

Under the name Nivhek, Liz Harris (Grouper) maps richly detailed inner worlds where enigmatic vibrations and voices glide dimly in and out of the void. Double album After its own death / Walking in a spiral towards the house consists of opaque assemblages ...

Axis of Aion (2019)

From 2019, Makino and Knapp have launched a new project "Axis of Aion". It uses two video projectors, each projecting live video and fusing them on a single screen. In addition, they perform live music. Since everything is done in live, there are no rest ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto: async at the Park Avenue Armory (2018)

A live performance film capturing an intimate concert by composer, pianist and music producer Ryuichi Sakamoto in New York City. The performance marked the first public unveiling of Sakamoto's new opus, async, hailed as one of the best albums of 2017 by Ro ...

Memento Stella (2018)

Makino Takashi takes us to a place where different rules apply. He overwhelms us with his universe, which is built up of countless images, figurative and non-figurative, accompanied by an equally sophisticated soundtrack. At times very abstract and distant ...

Dreaming In The Dark (2018)

For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema's capacity to transform relationships between the body and the camera to propose works that will engage with both perception and embodime ...

At the Horizon (2017)

An audiovisual snow storm in front of a black ground, a white horizontal line that divides the image, grid planes, unfolding and folding dimensions. Set to atonal, techno, and orchestral sounds; an abstract (non-)world beyond comprehension, a visual experi ...

Endless Cinema (2017)

10&11/03/2017 at Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum Images and music by Makino Takashi, music by Jim O'Rourke ...

On Generation and Corruption (2017)

Borrowing its title from a treatise by Aristotle, the latest film by Makino Takashi is an abstract work that finds its drive in the clash between light and darkness. Entirely composed of superimposed images of Tokyo's landscape and water sites, the film ta ...

Undulations (2017)

Experimental film by Takashi Makino. Collaboration film with Canadian multi musician Cal Lyall. ...

The Picture from Darkness (2016)

Takashi Makino's collaboration with Derek Jarman regular Simon Fisher Turner. Taking its starting point as Jarman's blindness after the completion of BLUE. ...

cinéma concret (2015)

Shadow presences gradually emerge in Japanese filmmaker Makino Takashi's abstract cinema composed of layers upon layers of natural imagery that awaken the senses. ...

Hokusotan 2015 (Action Direct) (2015)

Performance by Takashi Makino with music composed by Otomo Yoshihide. A tribute for Teruto Soejima and Masayuki Takayanagi. ...

Space Noise (2015)

[Space Noise] is a performance in which the double 25 FPS award winner confronts high-resolution video images and 16mm live projection. A duel between the all-dominant immaculate digital and the irregular organic material dissolves in multiple layers of ch ...

Origin of the Dreams (2015)

KONTRAST (2015)

Experimental film by Takashi Makino ...

Phantom Nebula (2014)

first foray into found-footage filmmaking where human shadows emerge from the dust and scratches accumulated on the filmstrip ...

KVTV (2014)

Makino Takashi collaboration with LeBon. ...

Wordless in Woods (2014)

Makino wraps footage of trees with a gauzy, summer drenched haze. Visually and aurally it's a very impressionistic experience. ...

Ghost of OT301 (2014)

Abstract short. ...

Humming Fields (2013)

Colleen is the alias of French artist Cécile Schott, who after a long period of silence, in 2013 returned to activity with The Weighing of the Heart (Second Language), a surprising work that represented another ambitious step forward in a career in consta ...

2012 (2013)

Everything I saw during 2012. This work will show you the dynamic moment of changing from film image to digital image. ...

Deorbit (2013)

Deorbit, the first collaboration between Makino Takashi and Telcosystems, takes viewers on a voyage from the immeasurable depths of space, visible only as pixels, to micro-space, the celluloid grain itself. ...

Article left by the departed (2013)

Experimental film by Takashi Makino. ...

Generator (2012)

Takashi Makino's source of inspiration, our place in the world and the universe, never seems to dry up in view of the never-ending flow of immersive films. Generator may well be the earthiest of his films so far, made as a reaction to the Fukushima disaste ...

Emaki/Light (2011)

Emaki is a Japanese traditional narrative form in picture and text created from 11th to 16th century. The film is collaboration work between filmmaker Makino Takashi and painter and filmmaker Ishida Takashi. Ishida has been interested in live-picture, the ...

In your star (2011)

Early experimental work from Takashi Makino. ...

Inter View (2011)

Short film by Takashi Makino ...

Emblem (2011)

16min, 2011, shooting format: 16mm film, screening format: HD, col ...

Still in Cosmos (2009)

An immersive work that uses skilled manipulation of the film surface and a powerful drone soundtrack to create a layered and dense universe of controlled chaos. In about eighteen minutes we experience life to the fullest, from birth to death and eternity. ...

The World (2009)

The four elements referred to as "water", "flame", "wind" and "earth" in this film all exist individually while responding to each other, by fighting and loving each other, foster the concept of a world in each individual's "subjectivity". ...

while we are here (2009)

The film version of the installation exhibition "while being here" which Takashi Makino and Ryota Aoyagi performed in 2007. The feeling which emerges when I heard the sentence "while we are here". Finally I found a lot of stories of life and death, and the ...

The Low Storm (2009)

Short film by Takashi Makino ...

Resolution, Synthesis, Re-composition (2009)

Experimental film by Takashi Makino. ...

The Seasons (2008)

A presentation of an expanding formation of "Elements of Nothing". The systematic harsh noise shaped by water and trees gives birth to a storm of novel imagination in the viewer's emotions. ...

Tranquil (2007)

"The rain" and "white noise" , "the outside of water" , "the inside of water" , everything become to together and drifting. A dark dark film in rain forest inspired by a music term to "Tranquil". ...

Elements of Nothing (2007)

For this film, Takashi Makino allowed himself to be inspired by the earth. In a never-ending stream of images, we recognize elements from the forest that he then reduces to an abstraction. The film came about as a classical composition in which the picture ...

In the Spectacle (2007)

Experimental film by Takashi Makino. ...

No is E (2006)

With the aid of a layered construction of the image, Takashi has managed to capture the different reflections of light on the surface of water. The acoustic-noise-like music and the dancing particles of light move like swarms of microorganisms and in this ...

The Ark (2006)

An experimental film by Takashi Makino. ...

The Shadow and Stardust (2006)

Experimental film by Takashi Makino. ...

The Intimate Stars (2004)

I see the particles of three primary colours when I close my eyes. I named them 'stars', then observed and filmed them. I looked for my own place among the unconsciousness inside my body and the unconsciousness outside my body. ...

EVE (2002)

"I represented light and life coming out of the darkness. I aimed for the fusion of multiple exposure and animation. ...

AMARGASM (2001)

"This (piece of) work was produced as thesis film project. I shot by 8mm film camera and printed it to 16 mm film by very old optical printer. I expressed a theme called "opposition", "fusion", and "ruin" represented by multiple exposure. ...