Nobuhiro Kawanaka Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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....

As demonstrated by the film's title, Kawanaka has been exploring the theme of “Shishōsetsu” (“realized” fiction) for...

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...

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

Since she was a little girl, Nagisa Yoko had two dreams: one was to have a song written for her by Aku Yu; the other was to sing at the Shinjuku Koma...

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