Nishikawa's films explore the idea of documenting a scene in the public space through a chosen medium and techniques, while his performances focus on the process of producing a visual/sound phenomenon using analog devices, such as 16mm and slide projectors. He currently teaches in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University.
16-18-4
16-18-4
16-18-4
Synopsis
The film was shot using a toy 35mm camera equipped with 16 lenses, which captures a rapid sequence of 16 images over a few seconds, arranged in two rows across two standard 35mm still-photography frames. This mechanism recalls the apparatus devised by Eadweard Muybridge to photograph a galloping horse in 1887, prior to the invention of the motion-picture camera.
The film records an event at Tokyo Racecourse during the 2008 Japanese Derby (Tokyo Yūshun), the most significant race meeting of the year, in which each race unfolds over approximately two minutes and thirty seconds. As the toy camera was never designed to produce moving images, the resulting unstable, bouncing visuals reveal the specific material qualities of the device, while also echoing the kinetic energy of the racing horses.
Director's Profile
NISHIKAWA Tomonari
Filmography
2003 Apollo
2005 Sketch Film #1
2005 Sketch Film #2
2005 Market Street
2006 Sketch Film #3
2006 Clear Blue Sky
2007 Sketch Film #4
2007 Sketch Film #5
2007 Into the Mass
2008 16-18-4
2009 Lumphini 2552
2010 Tokyo - Ebisu
2010 Shibuya - Tokyo
2013 45 7 Broadway
2014 Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars
2014 Manhattan One Two Three Four
2016 Luminous Veil
2016 Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon
2019 Amusement Ride
2023 Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke
Print Source
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