Daïchi Saïto Movies

  • 2009
    Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis

    Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis

    Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis

    5.32009HD

    The film explores familiar landscape imagery Saïto and Goldstein share in their neighbourhood at the foot of Mount-Royal Park in...

    Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis
  • 2014
    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump

    02014HD

    Light Licks: Pardes: Drowned Hat Rescue Media City Motown Jump
  • 2021
    earthearthearth

    earthearthearth

    earthearthearth

    8.52021HD

    The expansive mountainscapes of the Andes are the basis for this new, 35mm film by Daïchi Saïto. Once again propelled by the free,...

    earthearthearth
  • 2007
    Green Fuse

    Green Fuse

    Green Fuse

    02007HD

    A vegetal portrait in which the shape of trees becomes pure color, light and shadow, an organic form in a permanent dialogue with abstraction.


    Green Fuse
  • 2007
    Western Sunburn

    Western Sunburn

    Western Sunburn

    02007HD

    A re-photography in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux, painted, scratched and burned film loops...

    Western Sunburn
  • 2015
    Engram of Returning

    Engram of Returning

    Engram of Returning

    6.52015HD

    Accompanied by an extraordinary improvisational score by Montreal-based musician Jason Sharp, Daïchi Saïto’s Engram of Returning is...

    Engram of Returning
  • 2014
    Miron : Un homme revenu d'en dehors du monde

    Miron : Un homme revenu d'en dehors du monde

    Miron : Un homme revenu d'en dehors du monde

    02014HD

    Miron : Un homme revenu d'en dehors du monde
  • 2005
    Blind Alley Augury

    Blind Alley Augury

    Blind Alley Augury

    02005HD

    A direct record with on-screen edition in which beings, objects, light, shadow, and color are portrayed in a program, as if they were part of an...

    Blind Alley Augury
  • 2003
    Chiasmus

    Chiasmus

    Chiasmus

    02003HD

    An exploration into perceptual processes in the act of seeing and listening, Chiasmus takes film as a metaphor for the breathing body, through the...

    Chiasmus
  • 2022
    YOSHIDANOBUO

    YOSHIDANOBUO

    YOSHIDANOBUO

    82022HD

    Due to the SOMA secret society, Tokyo is under a chaotic order of destruction. People who have a high amount of MTE in them are kidnapped and...

    YOSHIDANOBUO
  • 2012
    Never a Foot Too Far, Even

    Never a Foot Too Far, Even

    Never a Foot Too Far, Even

    02012HD

    Appropriating a brief fragment from a 35mm print of an old Kung Fu movie, Never a Foot Too Far, Even is an action movie without action. Presented in...

    Never a Foot Too Far, Even
  • 2007
    All That Rises

    All That Rises

    All That Rises

    22007HD

    Juxtaposition of seeing and sounding, sky and stone and all that's in between. A short walk in an alleyway, to hear vision sounding images, blessed...

    All That Rises
  • 2020
    AFA50

    AFA50

    AFA50

    02020HD

    Short film by Daïchi Saïto to celebrate Anthology Film Archives’ 50th Anniversary

    AFA50
  • 2004
    Chasmic Dance

    Chasmic Dance

    Chasmic Dance

    02004HD

    A visual metaphor for creative process as a sustained state of flux, whereby the deconstruction and reconfiguration of source material manifest...

    Chasmic Dance