Nobuhiro Kawanaka Filmes

The seminal image of the continuous motion of a woman skipping. While Edward Muybridge worked to accurately record human movements, this film, shot...

The documentary to find the "true Shuji Terayama".

Masato Hara made his directorial debut in high school in 1968 and achieved a reputation as a young prodigy. Many years later, he continues to make...

A five-part documentary chronicling Toshio Matsumoto, the legendary filmmaker known as a pioneer of experimental cinema in Japan and also active as a...

Video began as a medium that inspired discovery. This art documentary traces the expressive roots of “media art” in Japan — works...

Video short by Japanese filmmaker Nobuhiro Kawanaka, premiered at the Image Forum Festival in 2012.

A nostalgic work, which attempts to reconstruct the materials of postwar 35 mm newsreel footage given by the filmmakers’ friend and old tinted...

Writes Kawanaka, "Video is a medium of image as well as sound. Walking on a gravel road with a camera, the crunch sound is captured in real time....

Film shot on 16mm by Japanese filmmaker Nobuhiro Kawanaka in the late 1990s.

Short film about the personal life of Nobuhiro Kawanaka.

A pictorial diary featuring images taken at the Old Blue Hotel in Berkeley.

A compilation of Kawanaka's representative "Shishōsetsu" series. "The title of my film series, 'I-novel,' is easily misunderstood. The 'I-novel'...

Short film that is part of a series of 6 films that Nobuhiro Kawanaka made between 1987 and 1992.

Lately, I cannot help thinking; “What if the gods created life and death by mistake?” I find it odd that as I age, my body withers. If,...

Digital film by Japanese director Nobuhiro Kawanaka presented at the Image Forum Festival.

In recent years, my older colleagues and friends have begun to pass away one after another. I wonder if I'm reaching that age myself, and I feel like...

The newest work in a series of works employing 16mm film to exchange correspondence between the two filmmakers Nobuhiro Kawanaka and Sakumi Hagiwara....

Digital film by Japanese director Nobuhiro Kawanaka presented at the Image Forum Festival.