Nationality: japanese
Tomonari Nishikawa is a filmmaker/artist, living in Vestal, New York, teaching in Cinema Department at Binghamton University, where he studied cinema and philosophy and started making films.
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.
8 MOVIES IN DISTRIBUTION
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AMUSEMENT RIDE
2019 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 6' 00 / 40 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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TEN MORNINGS TEN EVENINGS AND ONE HORIZON
2016 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 10' 00 / 43 € distribution: 16mm |
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SOUND OF A MILLION INSECTS, LIGHT OF A THOUSAND STARS
2014 / 35mm / color / sound / single screen / 2' 00 / 21 € distribution: 35mm or Digital file on server |
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45 7 BROADWAY
2013 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 5' 00 / 25 € distribution: 16mm |
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SHIBUYA - TOKYO
2010 / 16mm / color / sound / 10' 00 / 43 € distribution: 16mm |
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TOKYO - EBISU
2010 / 16mm / color / sound / 5' 00 / 25 € distribution: 16mm |
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LUMPHINI 2552
2009 / 35mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 3' 00 / 22 € distribution: 35mm |
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MARKET STREET
2005 / 16mm / b&w / silent / single screen / 5' 00 / 36 € distribution: 16mm |