Tomonari Nishikawa

Directing·Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

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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.

Film	Credit
Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 3 (For Charles)2023 · Director	Director
Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke2023 · Director	Director
SSix Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 22022 · Director	Director
PPerformance for Three Slide Projectors2022 · Director	Director
Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 12021 · Director	Director
Trafic2021 · Director	Director
Amusement Ride2019 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon2016 · Director	Director
Luminous Veil2016 · Director	Director
Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars2015 · Director	Director
Manhattan One Two Three Four2013 · Director	Director
45 7 Broadway2013 · Director	Director
Shibuya - Tokyo2010 · Director	Director
Tokyo - Ebisu2010 · Director	Director
Lumphini 25522009 · Director	Director
16-18-42009 · Director	Director
Into the Mass2007 · Director	Director
Sketch Film #52007 · Director	Director
Sketch Film #42007 · Director	Director
Clear Blue Sky2006 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
Sketch Film #32006 · Director	Director
Market Street2005 · Director	Director
Sketch Film #22005 · Director	Director
Sketch Film #12005 · Director	Director
Apollo2003 · Director	Director