Nobuhiro Kawanaka Movies

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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....