Hirofumi Nakamoto was born in Yokohama in 1986. He obtained a master’s degree from the Graduate School of Film and New Media of Tokyo University of the Arts. He also studied contemporary art at the University 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 film with a mobile phone camera, was selected for the 2017 Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. Night Snorkeling, collaborating with Nao Yoshigai, shooting the coastal waters of the Miura Peninsula, was selected for the 2021 Visions du Reel. His series “Living Creatures Sci-Fi", in which he brings animals like crabs to artificial spaces like hotel rooms to reflect the tension between animals, himself, and the camera, was screened at many film and art festivals. In 2018, he moved to Zushi City in the Kanagawa prefecture and founded “Zushi Art Films”, an organization, that holds lectures, workshops, and screenings around the film. He is currently holding a position as a teacher at Yokohama Digital Arts College.
List of Films
2024 LIAF2024《Island Eye Island Ear》Reports(30 min)
2024 Earth ∞ Pieces ─ in transit(38 min)
2023 S.I.D.E. / Side Effects(2 hours)
2024 Earth ∞ Pieces ─ in transit(38 min)
2023 S.I.D.E. / Side Effects(2 hours)
2023 Singing Snail(11 min)
2023 Going to meet Salvatore Sciarrino(38 min)
2023 Midsummer Rainbow Fish(Co-Director Nao Yoshigai・25 min)
2023 Let's Ride the Waves on 3.11(38 min)
2022 Gosuke and Rokuzaemon(9 min)
2022 A Summer in Miura(Co-Director Nao Yoshigai・13 min)
2022 Lager Than Life(31 min)
2021 Deep Water Data Logging @Lake Shikotsu(79 min)
2021 Carry-in Project 2019~2021(10 hours)
2020 Night Snorkeling(Co-Director Nao Yoshigai・11 min)
2020 Restoration work of Seiko Mikami [Eye-Tracking Infomatics](38 min)
2019 Visitors from the Riverside(11min)
2018 [Exhibition Document] from blanks to sensitivity(31 min)
2018 Mirror in the Forest(13min)
2017 Restoration work of Seiko Mikami [Code of Desire](100 min)
2017 Coves of Bodies(6 min)
2016 The Spacecraft Diaries 2016(14 min)
2014 IR PLANET(11 min)
2013 Silent Passengers(15 min)
2013 Silent Prisoner(10 min)
2013 Residents of Fantasy(8 min)
2012 Silent Travelers(13 min)
2012 Silent Visitors(12 min)
Screening
Night Snorkeling (DCP/12min/2020)
2021 Visions du Réel (Nyon, Switzerland)
2021 Japan Cuts (NY)
2021 ZINEBI (Bilbao, Spain)
Visitors from the Riverside (HD/Screening,6min/Installation,4min,roop/2017)
2019 dotdotdot 10 Jahre Open Air Kurtzfilmfestival (Wien, Austria)
2019 WRO Media Art Biennnale (Wroclaw, Austria)
2017-2018 Impurity / Immunity (Tokyo / Okinawa / Bangkok)
The Spacecraft Diaries 2016 (HD/14min/2016)
2017 Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Jihlava, Czech Republic)
Coves of Bodies (DCP/6min/2016)
2019 Labocine (Online Screening)
2017 Encounters Festival (Bristol, UK)
IR PLANET (DCP/10min/2014)
2020 Labocine (Online Screening)
2017 Kunstnacht Konstanz-Kreuzlingen (Konstanz, Germany)
2017 Hanoi DocFest (Hanoi, Vietnam)
2015 FILMFEST DRESDEN (Dresden, Germany)
2015 La Roche-Sur-Yon International Film Festival (France)
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 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Oberhausen, Germany)
2014 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Oberhausen, Germany)
Silent Passengers (HD/15min/2012)
2020 shorts/salon(Berlin, Germany)
2017 Cinematografic Journey - Visioni giapponesi (Milano,Italy)
2016 Labocine (Online Screening)
2015 La Roche-Sur-Yon International Film Festival (France)
2013 Berlin International Film Festival (Berlin, Germany)
2013 Image Forum Festival (Tokyo, Japan) C
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)
2013 Imagine Science Film Festival (Brooklyn, NY)
2013 Wathann Filmfest (Myanmar)
Residents of Fantasy (DCP/8min/2012)
2017 Cinematografic Journey - Visioni giapponesi (Milano,Italy)
2014 CULTURE SCAPES (Basel, Switzerland)
2014 FILMFEST DRESDEN (Dresden, Germany)
2012 Campus Genius Award (Tokyo, Japan)
Silent Travelers (HD/12min/2012)
2012 Image Forum Young Perspective (Tokyo, Japan)
2012 Campus Genius Award (Tokyo, Japan)
Quiet Visitors (HD/12min/2011)
2012 Image Forum Festival (Tokyo, Japan)
2012 Campus Genius Award (Tokyo, Japan)
Cloud Land (HD/12min/2009)
2010 Image Forum Young Perspective (Tokyo, Japan)
Group Exhibition
2024 《Island Eye Island Ear》(Lofoten International Art Festival 2024)
2024 Breathing Particles (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo)
2024 Earth ∞ Pieces — in transit(Tokyo, Ginza, Sony Park Mini)
2024 Breathing Particles (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo)
2024 Earth ∞ Pieces — in transit(Tokyo, Ginza, Sony Park Mini)
2023 Us verse Nature(Taipei, Treasure Hill Artist Village)
2023 Films - TRAMPLE THE BORDER(Feb Gallery Tokyo)
2022 Hinohara Art 2022(Tokyo)
2022 Zushi Art Festival “Spiral Film Festival” (Kanagawa, Zushi)
2022 IEIE, Reflected: phase 1(Sapporo, SCARTS)
2021 Zushi Art Festival “Spiral Film Festival” (Kanagawa, Zushi)
2021 Carry-in-Projext(Yamaguchi[YCAM])
2019 WRO Media Art Biennnale(Wroclaw, Poland)
2019 Institute of Environmental Art and Design “SF=Sukoshi Fushigi”(Orie Art gallery, Tokyo)
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)
2013 MEDIA PRACTICE(Graduate School of Film and New media, Tokyo University of the Arts)
Essay
2013 Perspective of the camera, living creatures and me (2013, Tokyo University of Arts)
Lecture, Workshop
2024 Kanazawa College of Art
2023 Zushi Cultural Plaza
2022 Zuyo High School
2020 Tokyo Zokei University
2020 Meiji University
2019 Meiji University
2019 Meiji 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 “Sakura Study”
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
2019 Recommendation:The Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences ISMIE2019 (Nihon University. Tokyo)
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)