Takashi Ito (director)

In an October 1984 interview with The Image Forum, Ito said that "Film is capable of presenting unrealistic world as a vivid reality and creating a strange space peculiar to the media. My major intention is to change the ordinary every day life scenes and draw the audience (myself) into a vortex of supernatural illusion by exercising the magic of films."

Ito would continue to hone his own distinct style in his following work, such as Thunder (1982), Ghost (1984), and Grim (1985). These films incorporated use of stop motion, pixilation, time-lapse, and long exposure photography in order to create an intense, exhilarating, and sometimes frightening atmosphere.

As a child, Takashi Ito enjoyed drawing manga. Two years after graduating from high school, Ito enrolled at Kyushu University. Ito was taught by acclaimed Japanese filmmaker and visual artist Toshio Matsumoto. Ito's first short film was Spacy, released in 1981. Spacy was set in a gymnasium which consisted of 700 continuous still photographs set on easels, which were then re-photographed frame-by-frame. The photographs are run together in a stop motion technique where the camera appears to zoom in on photographs set on an easel and then enter them. This technique is looped in linear, circular, and parabolic motions.

Takashi Ito (born 1956 in Fukuoaka, Japan) is a Japanese experimental filmmaker.