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Nishikawa Tomonari

NISHIKAWA Tomonari (Japan) started making films at Binghamton University in New York, where he studied cinema and philosophy. He also makes installations, including Building 945, which received the 2008 Museum of Contemporary Cinema Grant. Amusement Ride premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. Nishikawa is co-founder of the Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival (KLEX) and of Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image, in New York. He is an Associate Professor of Cinema at Binghampton University.

Filmography

(all short, selection) Apollo (2003), Sketch Film #1 (2005), Sketch Film #2 (2005), Market Street (2005), Sketch Film #3 (2006), Clear Blue Sky (2006), Sketch Film #4 (2007), Sketch Film #5 (2007), Into the Mass (2007), 16-18-4 (2008), Lumphini 2552 (2009), Tokyo – Ebisu (2010), Shibuya – Tokyo (2010), 45 7 Broadway (2013), sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars (2014), Manhattan One Two Three Four (2014), Luminous Veil (2016), Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (2016), Amusement Ride (2019)

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Nishikawa Tomonari at IFFR

  • Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke

    Intriguing portrait of summer fireworks, in which delayed and separated sounds create a unique rhythm.

    • Short & Mid-length

  • Sketch Film #3

    With a roll of Super8 film in his camera, the film maker ‘scans’ the urban environment in a fragmentary way.

    • Short: Starting from Scratch

  • Market Street

    With a good eye for composition, the film maker has shot a well-known street in San Francisco fragmentarily.

    • Short: Starting from Scratch

  • Sketch Film #4

    With a great eye for composition and a roll of Super8 film the maker ‘scans’ the surroundings in a fragmentary way.

    • Short: Starting from Scratch

  • Sketch Film # 5

    With a roll of Super8 film and a good eye for composition, the maker scans the surroundings.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes

  • 45 7 Broadway

    Yesterday’s film technique applied to today’s space. NYC’s Times Square turned into a red, green and blue light show.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars

    A result of burying negative film under fallen leaves in Fukushima, the abstract film makes visible the omnipresence of radioactivity.

    • As Long As It Takes: Short

  • Tokyo – Ebisu

    Double bill with Shibuya – Tokyo& uses an ingenious patchwork of thirty different shots to create a dynamic impression of the busiest metro line i

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Shibuya – Tokyo

    Double bill with Tokyo – Ebisu is an ingenious patchwork of thirty different shots showing station exits along Tokyo’s busiest metro line.

    • Spectrum Shorts

  • Lumphini 2552

    Photographs of twigs and leaves in Lumphini Park in Bangkok transform into organic patterns when projected as a film.

    • Spectrum Shorts