Tomonari Nishikawa
- Known for
- Directing
- Place of birth
- Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
- Died
- April 20, 2025
Biography
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.
Movies directed by Tomonari Nishikawa
- Market Street 2005 · ★ 5.3
- Sketch Film #1 2005 · ★ 6.0
- Sketch Film #3 2006 · ★ 5.0
- Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 1 2021 · ★ 4.7
- 45 7 Broadway 2013 · ★ 5.7
- Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon 2016 · ★ 6.0
- Apollo 2003 · ★ 7.0
- Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke 2023 · ★ 6.0
- Into the Mass 2007 · ★ 6.0
- Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars 2015 · ★ 5.0
- Clear Blue Sky 2006 · ★ 6.0
- Sketch Film #2 2005 · ★ 7.0
- Manhattan One Two Three Four 2013 · ★ 6.0
- Amusement Ride 2019 · ★ 7.0
- Luminous Veil 2016
- Trafic 2021
- 16-18-4 2009
- Shibuya - Tokyo 2010
- Tokyo - Ebisu 2010
- Sketch Film #4 2007
- Sketch Film #5 2007
- Lumphini 2552 2009
- Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 3 (For Charles) 2023
- Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 2 2022
- Performance for Three Slide Projectors 2022
- Magnetic Point 2023