Hirofumi Nakamoto was born in Yokohama in 1986. He obtained amasters degree from the Graduate School of Film and New Media ofTokyo University of the Arts. He also studied contemporary art at theUniversity of West England as an exchange student. The Silent Passenger,
shooting hermit crabs in Okinawa, was selected for the 2013 Berlin
International Film Festival. The Spacecraft Diaries 2016, a diary lm with amobile phone camera, was selected for the 2017 Jihlava International
Documentary Film Festival. Night Snorkeling, collaborating with NaoYoshigai, shooting the coastal waters of the Miura Peninsula, was selectedfor the 2021 Visions du Reel. His series “Living Creatures Sci-Fi", in which
he brings animals like crabs to arti cial spaces like hotel rooms to re ect
the tension between animals, himself, and the camera, was screened atmany lm and art festivals. In 2018, he moved to Zushi City in theKanagawa prefecture and founded “Zushi Art Films, an organization, thatholds lectures, workshops, and screenings around the lm. He is currently

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holding a position as a lecturer at Kanto Gakuin University.

Screening
2021

Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland)

2021Japan Cuts (NY)

2021

ZINEBI (Bilbao, Spain)

2020

Experimental Film Culture vol.2 in Japan (Tokyo, Japan)

2020

Labocine (Online Screening)2020

shorts/salon（Berlin, Germany）

2019

dotdotdot 10 Jahre Open Air Kurtzfilmfestival (Wien, Austria)

2019

WRO Media Art Biennnale (Wroclaw, Austria)

2017

Cinematografic Journey - Visioni giapponesi (Milano, Italy)

2017

Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Jihlava, Czech Republic)

2017

Encounters Festival (Bristol, UK)2017

Kunstnacht Konstanz-Kreuzlingen (Konstanz, Germany)

2017

Hanoi DocFest (Hanoi, Vietnam)

2015

FILMFEST DRESDEN (Dresden, Germany)

2014

VISIONS DU REEL (Nyon, Switzerland)

2014

Image Forum Festival (Tokyo, Japan)

2014

Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)

2014

Imagine Science Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY)2014

CULTURE SCAPES (Basel, Switzerland)

2014

FILMFEST DRESDEN (Dresden, Germany)

2013

Berlin International film Festival (Berlin, Germany)

2013

Image Forum Festival (Tokyo, Japan)

2013

Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)

2013

International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala (Kerala, India)

2013

Experimental Film Forum (Singapore)

2013

Summer shorts (Moscow, Russia)

2013

Milano Film Festival (Milano, Italy)

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Screening
2013

Imagine Science Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY)

2013

Wathann Filmfest (Myanmar)

2012

Campus Genius Award (Tokyo, Japan)

2012

Image Forum Young Perspective (Tokyo, Japan)

2010

Image Forum Young Perspective (Tokyo, Japan)

Exhibition
2023

Films - TRAMPLE THE BORDER（Feb Gallery Tokyo）

2022

Hinohara Art 2022（Tokyo）

2022

IEIE, Reflected : phase 1（Sapporo, SCARTS）

2022

Zushi Art Festival “Spiral Film Festival” (Kanagawa, Zushi)

2021

Carry-in-Projext（Yamaguchi［YCAM］）

2021

Zushi Art Festival “Spiral Film Festival” (Kanagawa, Zushi)

2019

WRO Media Art Biennnale（Wroclaw, Poland）

2018

Impurity / Immunity（Bangkok / Okinawa）

2017

Impurity / Immunity（Tokyo Arts and Space）

2014

Accidental Tools（Tokyo, Shibuya）

2013

Orality in the Moving Image （Tokyo, Shibuya）

Exhibition in academic conference
2019

Institute of Environmental Art and Desigh “SF=Sukoshi Fushigi”(Orie Art gallery, Tokyo)

2019

The Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences ISMIE2019 (Nihon University. Tokyo)

Essay
2013

Perspective of the camera, living creatures and me (2013, Tokyo University of Arts)

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Lecture, Workshop
2022

Zuyo High School2020

Tokyo Zokei University2020

Meiji University2019

Meiji University2019Meiji University

2018

Kanazawa Collage of Art

2018

Tokyo Zokei University

Other activities
2023

AIR：TOKAS Residency "Exchange Residency Program 2023”（Taipei）

2022

Assistant：Tacita Dean, Trevor Tweeten

2021

Organizer：Zushi Art Festival “Spiral Film Festival”

2021

Jury：Imagine Sience Films (NY)2020

Collaboration：Nam Hwayeon “Mind Stream”（Art Sonje Center / Seoul, Korea）

2020

Organizer：Zushi Art Festival “Spiral Film Festival”

2020

Jury：PIA Film Award

2019

Founder：Zushi Art Films

2017

Shooting and Narration：Nam Hwayeon “Imjin River”

2015

AIR：BARIM (Guanju, Korea)

2014

Founder：HIKARU-DOUBUTSUEN (Yokohama)2012

AIR：TOKYO X HANOI X ART (Hanoi, Vietnam)

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Year

Title

2023

Ride the Waves on March 11th [2023]

2023

Sound Art Exhibition TOKEAU HIBIKI

2022

Hinohara Art 2022

2021

Deep Water Data Loging @Lake Shikotsu (SIAF LAB)

2020

Venice Biennale of Architecture 2020

2019

Carry-in Project (YCAM /2019~2021)

2018

From blanks to Sensitivity

2018

Restoration work of Seiko Mikami's “Eye-Tracking Infomatics” (YCAM)

2016

Restoration work of Seiko Mikami's “Desire of Codes” (YCAM)

Films
Year

Title

World premiere2022

Gosuke and Rokuzaemon

Hinohara Art 2022

2022

Atmos

Zushi Art Festival 2022

2020

Night Snorkeling

Visions du Réel

2020

Lager Than Life

Art Sonje Center

2017

Visitors from the Riverside

Tokyo Arts and Space2016

The Spacecraft Diaries 2016

Ji.hlava Film Festival

2016

Coves of Bodies

Encounter Film Festival

2014

IR PLANET

Visions du Réel

2012

Silent Passengers

Berlinale2012

Residents of Fantasy

Image Forum Festival

2012

Silent Travelers

Image Forum Festival

2011

Silent Visitors

Image Forum Festival

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