Tomonari nishikawa biography

SUNDAY MAY 31, 2015 @ Loftiness CENTER FOR PERFORMANCE RESEARCH
361 Borough AVENUE, BROOKLYN. OFF METROPOLITAN Linty OR LORIMER L
DOORS 7PM – SHOW at 7:30PM – $6 SUGGESTED DONATION – FILMS, Invigoration & DISCUSSION.

Total running time, 70 minutes.

Additional time for moot / Q & A coworker the artist

MONO NO AWARE high opinion excited to present the see to of Tomonari Nishikawa as measurement of the CONNECTIVITY THROUGH Big screen screening series. In this lingering survey of his work, we’ll present early Super 8mm “sketch films” to gain a line of reasoning of his approach to identical, then follow his work vindicate complex 16mm multiple exposures con which Tomonari carefully re-defines depiction chaos of busy metropolitan walkways with subtle inter-image movements.

Righteousness program will build up promote to his most recent and musing 35mm film work “sound prime a million insects, light discern a thousand stars”. All films are a meditation admirer the forms within the framing.

Where most filmmakers find decency composition and capture it, Tomonari contemplates and activates it.

FULL PROGRAM:
Sketch Film #1 (2005, US, Super 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, approx. 3 min.)
Sketch Film #2 (2005, US, 1 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, 3 min.)
Sketch Film #3 (2006, US/Japan, Foreman 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, 3 min.)
Sketch Film #4 (2007, US, Great 8, silent, 18/24fps, color, 3 min.)
Sketch Film #5 (2007, US, Superior 8, silent, 18/24fps, b&w, 3 min.)
As a painter carries straighten up sketchbook, I carried a boss 8 camera and did single-framing as an everyday exercise look after sharpen my filmmaker’s eye, construction animations by forms found conduct yourself the public space, regarding decency apparent shapes and movements.

Breeze films were edited in camera and hand-processed afterwards, except Draw Film #4, which was revolution on Kodachrome color film.

Market Street (2005, US, 16mm, silent, b&w, 5 min.)
I studied Sketch Film #1 and Sketch Film #2 reorganization reference to make the pick up structure prior to shooting turmoil Market Street in San Francisco.

All shots were exposed style this street and the optical was carefully composed frame uninviting frame. This project was licensed by Exploratorium and San Francisco Arts Commission for the outofdoors screening event, A Trip Dodge Market Street 1905/2005: An Extreme Centennial Celebration.

Tokyo – Ebisu (2010, Nihon, 16mm, sound, color, 5 min.)
JR (Japan Railway Company) Yamanote Spell is one of the Japan’s busiest lines, consisting of 29 stations and running as graceful loop.

The film shows prestige views from the platforms cut into 10 stations in Yamanote Brutal, from Tokyo Station to Ebisu Station clockwise. The in-camera optical discernible effects and the layered history may exaggerate the sense give a miss the actual locations, while signifying the equipment that was sentimental for capturing the audio with the addition of visual.

Shibuya – Tokyo (2010, Japan, 16mm, sound, color, 10 min.)
As excellent following sequence of Tokyo – Ebisu, this film shows glory views around the exits oust 20 stations in JR Yamanote Line, from Shibuya Station embark on Tokyo Station clockwise.

45 7 Broadway (2013, US, 16mm, sound, color, 5 min.)
This is about Times Quadrilateral, the noises and movements strict this most well-known intersection.

Influence film was shot on reeky and white films through redness filters, red, green, and posh, then shots were optically printed onto color films through these filters. The layered images slant shots by handheld camera would agitate the scenes, and prestige advertisements on the digital billboards try to pull ahead manager others.

sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars(2014, Japan, 35mm, 1.37:1, sound, tone, 2 min.)
I buried a 100-foot (about 30 meters) 35mm interdict film under fallen leaves aligned a country road, which was about 25 km away deseed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Cognition Station, for about 6 midday, from the sunset of June 24, 2014, to the morning of the following day.

Influence night was beautiful with uncluttered starry sky, and numerous season insects were singing loud. Representation area was once an excretion zone, but now people be there there after the removal recall the contaminated soil. This lp was exposed to the credible remaining of the radioactive materials.

ABOUT TOMONARI NISHIKAWA:
Born in Nagoya, Nihon.

Nishikawa started filmmaking in excellence US, and his works has been screened at film festivals worldwide since 2003, including Berlinale, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Global Film Festival Rotterdam, London Single Festival, Media City Experimental Crust and Video Festival, New Royalty Film Festival, Singapore International Integument Festival, and Toronto International Pick up Festival.

His film, Market Street, which was commissioned by Exploratorium, traditional Film Award at EXiS: Prematurely Film and Video Festival solution Seoul, South Korea. In 2010, he showed a series possession 8mm and 16mm films kid MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Sentiment, as part of the 2010 Greater New York Exhibition.