Tomonari Nishikawa

Filmmaker curator and academic Born in 1969 Nishikawas films explore the idea of documenting situationsphenomena 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 PS1 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 cofounders of KLEX Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival and Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image He lives in JapanUSA currently teaching in Cinema Department at Binghamton University