Film · image · research · interactive
RONNIEKAO
I make films, images, and investigations by deciding what enters the frame, when it moves, and what it becomes.
Interactive cinema history
The Genealogy of Film
A curated spatial atlas of cinematic inheritance from 1895 to 2025, tracing filmmakers, movements, techniques and production conditions.
Enter project →1908–09T. TakahashiFriedrichstrasse 410
MUSEUM OBJECT“T. Takahashi.
Photograph. Tsingtau”
Photograph. Tsingtau”
OPEN QUESTIONWho owned the studio?Documented identities do not yet form a complete chain.
Historical research / interactive
T. Takahashi
A public research case built from a family photograph, directories, museum objects, publications and unresolved identities.
Open case file →Register no. 03United States · 1600s–2020s
Interactive social history
American
Dynasties
Blood, money, marriage and public life across four centuries of American families. An interactive register of documented relationships and historical social networks.
Enter the register
John D. Rockefeller Sr.1839—1937
Edward Henry Harriman1848—1909
Eleanor Roosevelt1884—1962
John F. Kennedy1917—1963
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney1875—1942
Blood · marriage · politics · business · education · philanthropy · societyExplore the evidence behind the connections
Different work.
One eye.
The visual system is not a costume. One line keeps moving: through streets, histories, relationships, evidence, and whatever comes next.
3 public works · private and draft work is excluded at build time.