Nobuhiro Kawanaka Movies

The documentary to find the "true Shuji Terayama".

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

Short film about the personal life of Nobuhiro Kawanaka.

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

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

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

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....

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

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

“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...

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...