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Tomonari Nishikawa
Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Filmmaker, curator, and academic. Born in 1969. Nishikawa’s films explore the idea of documenting situations/phenomena through a chosen medium and technique, often focusing on pro…
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Filmmaker, curator, and academic. Born in 1969. Nishikawa’s films explore the idea of documenting situations/phenomena through a chosen medium and technique, often focusing on process itself. His films have been screened at numerous film festivals and art venues, including Berlinale, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, London Film Festival, Media City Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Singapore International Film Festival, and Toronto International Film Festival. In 2010, he presented a series of 8mm and 16mm films at MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, and his film installation, Building 945, received the 2008 Grant Award from the Museum of Contemporary Cinema in Spain. He served as a juror for the 2010 Ann Arbor Film Festival, the 2012 Big Muddy Film Festival, and the 2013 dresdner schmalfilmtage. He is one of the co-founders of KLEX: Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival and Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image. He lives in Japan/USA, currently teaching in Cinema Department at Binghamton University.
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2023
Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 3 (For Charles)
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2023
Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke
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2022
Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 2
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2022
Performance for Three Slide Projectors
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2021
Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 1
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2021
Trafic
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2019
Amusement Ride
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2016
Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon
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2016
Luminous Veil
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2015
Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars
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2013
Manhattan One Two Three Four
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2013
45 7 Broadway
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2010
Shibuya - Tokyo
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2010
Tokyo - Ebisu
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2009
Lumphini 2552
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2009
16-18-4
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2007
Into the Mass
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2007
Sketch Film #5
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2007
Sketch Film #4
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2006
Clear Blue Sky
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2006
Sketch Film #3
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2005
Market Street
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2005
Sketch Film #2
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2005
Sketch Film #1
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2003
Apollo
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