Nobuhiro Kawanaka Movies

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

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...

The documentary to find the "true Shuji Terayama".

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,...

The first installment in the "Video Letters" series, in which two artists exchange images. The story unfolds as each artist incorporates the other's...

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

The work by Nobuhiro Kawanaka, who consistently produces film works from a personal aspect, focuses on Naito Chin (comedian, book reviewer), who had...

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...

“I am deeply involved in human memory and the feeling of nostalgia brought about by time. For this piece, my challenge was to observe time...

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...

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

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

Photographs of a nude, arranged into stop-motion sequences on the left half of the screen, are juxtaposed with a close-up of the film itself passing...

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

Experimental film by Nobuhiro Kawanaka.

Short film about the personal life of Nobuhiro Kawanaka.

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