Filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa (Japan/USA) will present a program of his experimental Super 8 and 16mm films at the VSW Salon, and discuss his process-based approach to visual and temporal composition. Nishikawa’s intricate cinematic technique weaves time and space into graphic patterns, undulating rhythms and colorful forms, resulting in an expansive perceptual experience of often familiar subjects.

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Program:

Sketch Film #1 (2.5 min, Super 8, silent, 2005)

Sketch Film #2 (2.5 min, Super 8, silent, 2005)

Market Street (5 min, 16mm, silent, 2005)

Sketch Film #5 (2.5 min, Super 8, silent, 2007)

Lumphini 2552 (2 min, 35mm, sound, 2009)

Clear Blue Sky (4 min, digital video, sound, 2006)

16-18-4 (2.5 min, 35mm, silent, 2008)

45 7 Broadway (5 min, 16mm, sound, 2013)

sound of a million insects, light of a million stars (2 min, 35mm, sound, 2014)

Tokyo – Ebisu (5 min, 16mm, sound, 2010)

Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (10 min, 16mm, sound, 2016)

Amusement Ride (6 min, 16mm, sound, 2019)

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The VSW Salon is programmed by Tara Merenda Nelson, taranelson@vsw.org

The VSW Salon is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts and by the ArtWorks program of the National Endowment for the Arts.