Tomonari Nishikawa
Directing · Died Apr 20, 2025 (null) · 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 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.
Directed
Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 3 (For Charles)
2023
Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke
20236.0
Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 1
20214.7
Trafic
2021
Amusement Ride
20197.0
Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon
20166.0
Luminous Veil
2016
Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars
20155.0
Manhattan One Two Three Four
20136.0
45 7 Broadway
20135.7
Shibuya - Tokyo
2010
Tokyo - Ebisu
2010
Lumphini 2552
2009
16-18-4
2009
Into the Mass
20076.0
Sketch Film #5
2007
Sketch Film #4
2007
Clear Blue Sky
20066.0
Sketch Film #3
20065.0
Market Street
20055.3
Sketch Film #2
20057.0
Sketch Film #1
20056.0
Apollo
20037.0