Takashi Ito, la mémoire des murs | Programme de courts-métrages

Wednesday, 16 September 2026 · 8:30 p.m.

Editorial

Unlike the political approaches to landscape—“fukei-ron”—that shaped part of radical Japanese cinema in the 1960s and ’70s, viewing landscape as a reflection of the power relations that produce it, Takashi Ito offers a far more subjective vision of urban environments. Over 20 years, he made around fifteen short films with absolutely stunning visuals: a maelstrom of technical feats and endlessly interwoven forms aimed at deconstructing everyday space. Constantly situated at the crossroads of animation and live action, Takashi Ito offers a hypnotic, psychedelic experience, bordering on epileptic, drawing viewers into a whirlpool of supernatural illusions.

With each film, Ito reveals a little more about the unconscious obsessions hidden behind his formal obsessions. Gradually, his highly formalist approach unveils a deeply intimate discourse, like a filmed diary, in which the deconstruction of everyday places becomes a deconstruction of the self, making way for mysterious ghostly figures. Spaces of banality become unstable, haunted mental territories, which his cinema deconstructs to the point of vertigo.

Tristan Torre

Drill

by Takashi Ito | 1983 | Japan | 5 min | No dialogue | 16mm film screening

Grim

by Takashi Ito | 1985 | 7 min | Sound

The Moon

by Takashi Ito | 1994 | 6 min

Zone

by Takashi Ito | 1995 | 12 min | Sound | 16mm film screening

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