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田巻 真寛 / Shinkan Tamaki

見たことのないイメージと新しい知覚の気づきを求め、主に映像とそれに関連した作品を制作する。抽象と具象、イメージと音の狭間を行き交う映像、フィルムの物質性を探求した作品などがある。近年は日常の光学現象を観察するビデオ作品の制作、ガラスやプリズムで光を操作するライブパフォーマンスも行っている。ロッテルダム国際映画祭、カナダのメディアシティ映画祭、クアラルンプール国際実験映画&音楽祭など海外での上映とライブも続いている。音と映像の実験場「Sound Screening」主宰。栃木県鹿沼市で2022年にオープンした、Center(模索する多目的スペース+宿泊)副センター長。
https://center-kanuma.net

Shinkan Tamaki
Artist in search of never-before-seen images and new perceptual experience. He makes mainly moving image and works related to it. There are works which cross between abstract and concrete, sound and image. In some film works, he focused on the materiality of film and applied it as sculpted objects. Recently, He makes video works which we observe optical phenomena in our daily life. And he also shows live performance that he manipulate lights with glass and prism. The works were screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam(The Netherlands), Media City Film Festival(Canada), Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival(Malaysia), and so on. Organizer of experimental event series in sound and image “Sound Screening”. Vice director of Center (Alternative Space and Hostel), which opened in 2022 in Kanuma, Tochigi.
https://center-kanuma.net

Images do not live in this world but in the eye of the beholder. Perception is just the result of the human vision failures, and the way we educate our look. Shinkan Tamaki films are propelled from this idea as if from a trampoline, sometimes helped in their drive by the properties of the photochemical support, sometimes by the basic principles of light and color. High contrast, the distinction between figure and ground, folds, shadows, negative and positive image, traces and marks left by analog processes: these are some of Tamaki’s resources in his efforts to explore the latitude of film contrast thoroughly, and try the possibilities of the light spectrum. A stroll that breaks into a thousand pieces, the body of an animal that becomes an abstract choreography or a boat trip where sky and sea are exchanged and denatured are just some of the means to un-educate the eye that the films by Shinkan Tamaki provide, where everything can become nothing, and nothing the entire universe.
– (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico –

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Screening, live and installation history

2009
Sound Screening (Japan)
screen sessions (Japan)
silicon wafer / film live with Toshihisa Hirano (Japan)
MAGICAL CAMP 2009 (Japan)
Red Cross screening (Japan)

2010
Loop-Line screening (Japan)
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Holand)
13th Chofu city Short Film Competition (Japan)
silicon wafer 2 (Japan)
pool line 002 (Japan)
+ 2010 (Japan)

2011
+ 2011 Kyoto (Japan)
4 Spectacles (Japan)
Australian International Experimental Film Festival (Australia)
Amoeba City: SchoolNite -The New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for the New City- (USA)
Early Monthly Segments presents #29 (Canada)
WNDX Festival of moving image (Canada)
13th Paris Festival of Different & Experimental Cinemas (France)

2012
KINEMA NIPPON in TOKYO (Japan)
KINEMA NIPPON World Tour (Germany, France, UK, Holland, USA, Chile…)
Australian International Experimental Film Festival (Australia)
Hors Pistes Tokyo 2012 (Japan)
Sound Screening 2012 (Japan)
Zipangu Fest (UK)
WNDX Festival of moving image (Canada)
+ in Vienna (Austria)
Zipangu Est (Estonia)
+ Tokyo Exhibition (Japan)

2013
Experiments in Cinema v8.53 (USA)
TYO>MLA>[+] (Philippines)
ARKIPEL International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival (Indonesia)
WNDX Festival of moving image (Canada)
+ Worm (Holand)
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIMENTAL SOUND FESTIVAL (UK)
The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (USA)
EARLY SIGNS OF DECAY (Japan)
UNSEEN LIGHTS AND SHADOWS (Malaysia)

2014
Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival (USA)
(S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico (Spain)
MEDIA CITY FILM FESTIVAL (CANADA)
Contemporary Art Ruhr, the media art fair (Germany)
Berliner Liste (Germany)
BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DE VIDEO Y CINE CONTEMPORÁNEO VIDEOFEST (Mexico)
Taichi Furudate+sofheso, abt+Tomoe Takizawa, Shinkan Tamaki+Madoka Kouno(Japan)
swim(Japan)

2015
Solo live and screening at S house in Gunma (Japan)
Sound Screening Vol.3 (Japan)

2016
aemi -Supporting and Exhibiting Artists’ and Experimental Moving Image-(Ireland)
Sound Screening Vol.4 (Japan)
黄金のえじき 第4話 a few bullions in desert episode 4 (Japan)
ちゃが馬 石神井氷川神社 (Japan)
Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Mar del Plata(Argentina)
3 solos (Japan)
From Here (Japan)

2017
杜の星空映画館 (Japan)
Sound Screening Vol.5 (Japan)
ちゃが馬七夕 (Japan)
森のJAZZ祭 (Japan)
KLEX: Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music Festival (Malaysia)