Takashi Makino

Takashi Makino

Birth : 1978-01-01, Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

History

Takashi Makino (1978, Japan) is an artist and makes experimental films. He was educated in Cinematography at the Nihon University College of Art in Japan. In 2001, he served an apprenticeship with the Quay Brothers in London, during which he mainly studied film music and lighting. His short films Elements of Nothing (2008) and Generator (2012) have been selected for IFFR's short film competition, and with Generator Makino won a Tiger Award for Short Films. His films have been invited for screenings at numerous film and video art festivals worldwide.

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Takashi Makino

Movies

Anti-Cosmos
Sound Mixer
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 by "Cosmos and Anti-cosmos" by Japanese philosopher Toshihiko Izutsu. The soundtrack, which was mainly produced in the range of frequencies below 1000Khz, physically vibrates the viewer's body.
Anti-Cosmos
Director
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 by "Cosmos and Anti-cosmos" by Japanese philosopher Toshihiko Izutsu. The soundtrack, which was mainly produced in the range of frequencies below 1000Khz, physically vibrates the viewer's body.
Film for Shade
Director
Experimental film for Grouper by Takashi Makino
Microcosmos
Director
"Micro Cosmos" is an non-narrative experimental documentary film that records 100 collages produced by Makino in 2021 in chronological order.
Untitled
Director
Untitled is a collage film that combines the image and sound of Takashi Makino, the music of Lawrence English and the automatic writing text of Esperanza Collado, produced between March and June 2020, when the first attack of the coronavirus shook the world.
Double Phase
Director
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 the simplistic and monocular sensing of the world, Makino responds with an intensely affective projection of lived experience. Moving far beyond the capacity of lived day to day experience, the film collides image after image into a cascade of almost-cosmic complexity. A reminder that we must always be reaching out and extending ourselves into the world that emerges before us. (Asia TOPA 2020)
Nivhek
Director
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 of Mellotron, guitar, field recordings, tapes, and broken FX pedals. In pacing, palette, and poignancy, these sides rank among Harris' most stark, primordial work: fragile, feverish, ominous, and otherworldly. Accompanied by visuals from experimental filmmaker Takashi Makino which were made exclusively for live shows of this album.
Axis of Aion
Director
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 restrictions on length of the video. Makino's unique organic depth produced by layering materials such as water and landscapes, and Knapp's imaginative monochrome line movement creates a new vision that beyond the imaginations of the viewers.
Ryuichi Sakamoto: async Live at the Park Avenue Armory
VFX Artist
In April 2017 Japanese composer, pianist and music producer Ryūichi Sakamoto made a guest appearance for two evenings in the Veteran’s Room, an intimate, 200-seater hall at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. Stephen Nomura Schible recorded this concert with his camera.
Memento Stella
Editor
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, at others almost palpable and narrative. We naturally seek recognition in the infinite layering of the images, and in so doing compose our own story, based on what we ourselves know of the world, using our personal references to help us. In this way, a work arises unique to every viewer, which continues to reverberate long after we leave the cinema.
Memento Stella
Director of Photography
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, at others almost palpable and narrative. We naturally seek recognition in the infinite layering of the images, and in so doing compose our own story, based on what we ourselves know of the world, using our personal references to help us. In this way, a work arises unique to every viewer, which continues to reverberate long after we leave the cinema.
Memento Stella
Director
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, at others almost palpable and narrative. We naturally seek recognition in the infinite layering of the images, and in so doing compose our own story, based on what we ourselves know of the world, using our personal references to help us. In this way, a work arises unique to every viewer, which continues to reverberate long after we leave the cinema.
Dreaming In The Dark
Director
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 embodiment. Could cinema be an art of embodiment? By what rituals and actions could vision become tactile?
At the Horizon
Sound
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 experience that one must intuitively sense. Lost in space and time – the big bang of consciousness
At the Horizon
Director
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 experience that one must intuitively sense. Lost in space and time – the big bang of consciousness
Endless Cinema
Director
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
Director
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 takes its rhythm from the cycles of repetition that are the pillars of life and civilisation. As light emerges from the chaos, Jim O’Rourke’s ambient drone sets the tone for what is to come.
Undulations
Director
Experimental film by Takashi Makino. Collaboration film with Canadian multi musician Cal Lyall.
The Picture from Darkness
Director
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
Director
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)
Director
Performance by Takashi Makino with music composed by Otomo Yoshihide. A tribute for Teruto Soejima and Masayuki Takayanagi.
Space Noise
Director
[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 chaos. Enormous quantities of light movements from film loops capture the screen in thousands of pixels of digital projection and create new images in constant change and enhancement. The sound accompanying them live only repeats and spreads the noise, developing images by whirling speed. Noise, located on the tape as a constituent part of the film, becomes the aim of Makino’s quest – Noise-Image. This quest for a new film experience intensifies with additional effects – a smoke curtain reveals the fullness of the light beams’ rainbow spectrum, while a neutral single-eye ND filter creates a three-dimensional illusion.
Origin of the Dreams
Director
KONTRAST
Director
Experimental film by Takashi Makino
Phantom Nebula
Director
first foray into found-footage filmmaking where human shadows emerge from the dust and scratches accumulated on the filmstrip
KVTV
Director
Makino Takashi collaboration with LeBon.
Wordless in Woods
Cinematography
Makino wraps footage of trees with a gauzy, summer drenched haze. Visually and aurally it’s a very impressionistic experience.
Wordless in Woods
Director
Makino wraps footage of trees with a gauzy, summer drenched haze. Visually and aurally it’s a very impressionistic experience.
Ghost of OT301
Writer
Abstract short.
Ghost of OT301
Director
Abstract short.
Humming Fields
Director of Photography
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 constant evolution. The video for Humming Fields, one of the album's tracks, was a new collaboration between the French artist and Japanese filmmaker Takashi Makino.
Humming Fields
Director
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 constant evolution. The video for Humming Fields, one of the album's tracks, was a new collaboration between the French artist and Japanese filmmaker Takashi Makino.
2012
Director
Everything I saw during 2012. This work will show you the dynamic moment of changing from film image to digital image. —Takashi Makino
Article left by the departed
Director
Experimental film by Takashi Makino.
Deorbit
Director
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.
Emaki/Light
Music
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 process of paint, and Makino’s interest is to make a new image with extremely high speed random images. With Makino’s skills in telecine, Ishida’s painted lines were rolled and scrolled, and became “the living line”. The film is maybe a chance, or maybe it is a fight. Perhaps, this film will show you both elements. (www.lightcone.org)
Emaki/Light
Director
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 process of paint, and Makino’s interest is to make a new image with extremely high speed random images. With Makino’s skills in telecine, Ishida’s painted lines were rolled and scrolled, and became “the living line”. The film is maybe a chance, or maybe it is a fight. Perhaps, this film will show you both elements. (www.lightcone.org)
In your star
Director
Early experimental work from Takashi Makino.
Emblem
Telecine Colorist
16min, 2011, shooting format: 16mm film, screening format: HD, col
Generator
Director
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 disaster. A reality check, but in the world that Makino shows, this can never be achieved without looking inwards too.
Inter View
Director
Short film by Takashi Makino
Still in Cosmos
Production Design
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.
Still in Cosmos
Editor
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.
Still in Cosmos
Cinematography
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.
Still in Cosmos
Writer
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.
Still in Cosmos
Producer
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.
Still in Cosmos
Director
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.
while we are here
Director
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 these stories looked like moments and eternity.
Resolution, Synthesis, Re-composition
Director
Experimental film by Takashi Makino.
The Low Storm
Director
Short film by Takashi Makino
The World
Director
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"
The Seasons
Director
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.
In the Spectacle
Director
Experimental film by Takashi Makino.
Tranquil
Music
“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
Director
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 and the musical contribution of Jim O’Rourke link up seamlessly and lead the mood in turn. A sense of freedom is what predominates.
Tranquil
Director
“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”.
The Shadow and Stardust
Director
Experimental film by Takashi Makino.
The Ark
Director
An experimental film by Takashi Makino.
No is E
Director
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 way slowly cover the entire screen.
The Intimate Stars
Director
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
Music
"I represented light and life coming out of the darkness. I aimed for the fusion of multiple exposure and animation."
EVE
Director
"I represented light and life coming out of the darkness. I aimed for the fusion of multiple exposure and animation."
AMARGASM
Director
"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."