Tomonari Nishikawa
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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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Tokyo - Ebisu (2010)
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Shibuya - Tokyo (2010)
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Amusement Ride (2019)
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Clear Blue Sky (2006)
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Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 3 (For Charles) (2023)
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Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars (2015)
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Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke (2023)
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Market Street (2005)
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Sketch Film #3 (2006)
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Apollo (2003)
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Magnetic Point (2023)
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Into the Mass (2007)
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Lumphini 2552 (2009)
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Sketch Film #2 (2005)
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Manhattan One Two Three Four (2013)
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Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (2016)
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Luminous Veil (2016)
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Trafic (2021)
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Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 1 (2021)
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Sketch Film #1 (2005)
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Sketch Film #4 (2007)
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45 7 Broadway (2013)
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16-18-4 (2008)
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Sketch Film #5 (2007)
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Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 2 (2022)
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Performance for Three Slide Projectors (2022)
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