jurors

TOMONARI NISHIKAWA

http://tomonarinishikawa.com/

Born in Nagoya, Japan. In 2001, Nishikawa started filmmaking in the US, while pursuing his BA in Cinema and Philosophy at Binghamton University. His senior thesis project, Apollo, a hand-made 16mm film focused on capturing images on the optical soundtrack, has been premiered at New York Film Festival in 2003, as part of Views from the Avant-Garde, a body of screening programs that introduces experimental films and video. Since then, his works have been screened at numerous film festivals worldwide, including Berlinale, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Media City Experimental Film and Video Festival, Melbourne International Film Festival, Singapore International Film Festival, and Toronto International Film Festival. His film, Market Street, which was commissioned by Exploratorium, a museum of science, art, and human perception in San Francisco, received Film Award at 2006 EXiS: Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, South Korea. In 2010, he showed a series of 8mm and 16mm films at MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, as part of the Greater New York Exhibition. His most recent 16mm film, Tokyo – Ebisu, created by using multiple exposure and masking techniques, received Top Prize at 2011 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival.

Nishikawa also works on installation projects, and such works have been exhibited at Disjecta Art Space in Portland, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, and Still Motion in Toronto. One of his installations, Building 945, which was exhibited at 2008 Berlinale for two weeks, received the 2008 Grant from the Museum of Contemporary Cinema in Spain.

In 2007, Nishikawa curated a screening program, Danger Zone, for Studio 27, an alternative gallery space located in San Francisco at that time. Since then, he has curated film programs for a number of venues, including Baus Theater in Tokyo, Early Monthly Segments in Toronto, Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, filmSPACE in Chiang Mai, Thailand, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (co-curated with Vanessa O’Neill at San Francisco Cinematheque), the 8 fest in Toronto, Uplink Theater in Tokyo, and Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions in Tokyo.

Nishikawa has been a visiting artist at various institutions, including California College of the Arts, Chiang Mai University in Thailand, Dartmouth College, Emerson College, Universiti Teknologi MARA in Shah Alam, Malaysia, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Pitzer College. He is one of the co-founders of KLEX: Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival in Malaysia, for which he works now as a festival adviser. In 2010, he served as a juror for the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and he was a screening program consultant for the Aichi Art Triennale in Japan. He currently teaches at Cinema Department, Binghamton University, as a visiting faculty.

Juror Showcase: 7:30 FRI 2/24    Guyon Auditorium

  • Sketch Film #1 (2005, 3 min, super 8, 18fps, silent, US)
  • Sketch Film #2 (2005, 3 min, super 8, 18fps, silent, US)
  • Market Street (2005, 5 min, 16mm, silent, US)
  • Sketch Film #3 (2006, 3 min, super 8, 18fps, silent, US/Japan)
  • Sketch Film #4 (2007, 3 min, super 8, 18fps, silent, US)
  • Sketch Film #5 (2007, 3 min, super 8, 18fps, silent, US)
  • Clear Blue Sky (2006, 4 min, MiniDV, sound, US)
  • Passing Fog (2006, 3 min, video documentation, mixed media, sound, US)
  • Building 945 (2007, 3 min, video documentation, mixed media, sound, US)
  • Into the Mass (2007, 6 min, dual 16mm projection, silent, US)
  • Tokyo – Ebisu (2010, 5 min, 16mm, sound, Japan)
  • Shibuya – Tokyo (2010, 10 min, 16mm, sound, Japan)
  • Shake ‘n Bake (work in progress, 3 min, 16mm, sound, US)

STEVE REINKE

http://www.stevereinke.com/

Steve Reinke is an artist and writer best known for his work in video. His work is in many collections including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the National Gallery (Ottawa), and has screened at many festivals including Sundance, Rotterdam, Oberhausen and the New York Video Festival. In 2006 he received the Bell Canada Video Award. A book of his scripts, “Everybody Loves Nothing,” was recently published by Coach House. He has also edited several books, most recently (with Chris Gehman) “The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema.” He has a blog, www.fennelplunger.com, as well as a site that archives his work, www.myrectumisnotagrave.com. His research interests include digital video production, motion graphics/animation, rhetorical and narrative strategies for visual art, the voice and psychoanalysis.

Juror Showcase: 7:30 SAT 2/25    Guyon Auditorium

  • Everybody (2009, Jessie Mott & Steve Reinke, 4min)
  • from “Hand of Man 2” (work-in-progress, Steve Reinke & James Richards, 12min)
  • The Tiny Ventriloquist (2012, Steve Reinke, 59min)

CHRIS CHOMYN

http://www.chrischomyn.com/

Christopher Chomyn is an award winning cinematographer who has filmed in challenging locations around the globe. Since 1997 he has shared his extensive professional experience with his graduate and undergraduate students at USC.

His credits include the feature films: Hidden Moon (2011), Flying By (2009), Mr. Sadman (2009), Wild About Harry (2009), Sea Of Dreams (2006), Lockdown (2000), Phantasm(s) III (1993) & IV (1998), Picture Bride (1994) and Taxi Dancer (1997).

His work has been honored with both the Best Cinematography and Best Feature Film Awards at the Cine Gear Expo. It has also garnered the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, was listed among “The Best of the Fest” at The Palm Springs Film Festival, and has been featured at many premier festivals including: Toronto, Montreal, Houston World Fest, Los Angeles and many others.

Chomyn sits on the National Executive Board [NEB] of the International Cinematographers Guild [ICG]. He received his M.F.A. from UCLA's School of Theater, Film & Television and a B.A. in History from Fairfield University.

He has taught cinematography workshops for Eastman Kodak, Disney Feature Animation, ICG, UCLA Extension, Loyola Marymount University, Film Independent and the International Film & Video Workshops in Rockport, Maine.

Juror Showcase: 7:00 THU 2/23    Guyon Auditorium