CAMERA OBSCURA: TOMONARI NISHIKAWA

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Last April, the beloved and admired filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa, who visited us in 2021, passed away. We are bringing back the Camera Obscura we shared with him in 2020 as our way of remembering him through his work and his humanity.

To reduce the world to its purest forms, using the camera to play with them—a statement that serves as a preliminary introduction to the work of Tomonari Nishikawa. Having begun making films in the early 2000s, Nishikawa experimented with every photochemical medium available, and occasionally explored video. His “documentary” footage of different world locations is brought to us filtered through a pair of eyes with special awareness about the visual essence of the surrounding reality. Nishikawa’s filming techniques and devices include frame-by-frame shooting, still cameras, in-camera masking and, in his more contemplative films, a graphic-based structure or unusual mise-en-scène. In this year’s Camera Obscura, we will go through his work by screening a selection of his films.

Photos: María Meseguer