Nobuhiro Kawanaka Movies

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

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

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

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

“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...

This formal study is based on a series of postcards of pre-war Tokyo. The artist fuses these images of the past with the same scenes that appear...

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