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Death of Tomonari Nishikawa

© Léa Rener

It is with great sadness that we learned of the death of filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa on April 20, 2025. The author of some twenty masterful experimental films, and a professor at Binghamton University, United States, Tomonari Nishikawa was at Cinéma du Réel in March 2024 to present the last of them, Light, Noise, Smoke and Light, Noise, Smoke, a film shot using the fireworks from a summer festival in Japan, whose astonishing light play today bring back memories of a gentle, warm being. Our thoughts are with his wife Miki, his children and his family.