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Masashi Ohtsu’s Moving Image

Experience a diverse collection of moving image works by Masashi Ohtsu, where storytelling, music, and visual experimentation intersect. This portfolio features documentary filmmaking, commercial fashion videos, and avant-garde experiments that reflect Ohtsu’s signature blend of technical skill and creative vision.

Notable highlights include The Black Crowes Cabin Fever, a documentary co-directed, filmed, and edited by Ohtsu and Matthew Mendenhall that brings fans into the creative process behind the album Before the Frost…Until the Freeze—capturing intimate, behind-the-scenes moments at Woodstock’s Levon Helm Studios. The film immerses viewers in the artistic collaboration between band and audience for an uncommonly personal perspective.

The page also showcases a range of fashion spots and conceptual commercials, produced in collaboration with leading brands. These works demonstrate stylish storytelling and dynamic editing for brands such as Andrew Marc and Marc Moto.

Rounding out the portfolio are experimental videos—imaginative projects like “Wet Pinkey,” “Niku Jaga,” and selections from “A Soundtrack to an Imaginary Film”—which explore the boundaries of sound, movement, and visual narrative.

Each work reveals Ohtsu’s ongoing exploration of form, process, and collaboration, offering viewers a window into the intersections of music, art, and experimental cinema.

The Black Crowes Cabin Fever

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The Black Crowes Cabin Fever
Directed, filmed and edited by:
Matthew Mendenhall & Masashi Ohtsu

The idea of inviting fans into the studio to become part of the process during recording is a rare experience. The Album Before the Frost…Until the Freeze was recorded over a series of five nights in front of an intimate studio audience at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, NY.

Cabin Fever, directed, filmed and edited by Matthew Mendenhall and Masashi Ohtsu, takes that experience one step further by inviting the viewers to see behind the scenes footage of both the recording and songwriting sessions along with interaction between the band and the audience. The film gives fans the ability to feel the experience firsthand in a unique and intimate way.... more