VIDEO COLLECTION
The Latest
“Chaos_K.U.D.O Remix” The Factors
Directed, shot, animation & edited by Nao Nakazawa
8mm film and video installation and music in collaboration with Masahisa Koike’s installation “Muddy River” (泥の河）
at Flat File Slash gallery in Nagano, Japan, on Nov. 9, 2022
Awai Experience is an art tourism type of event in collaboration with BOOT and Nishiaizu International Art Village
Dec. 2021 - Jan. 2022
in Nishiaizu, Fukushima, Japan
For more information please visit here: https://awai-project.jp
Kusakiwo matotte, yamano kamisama (Deities of mountains, dressed in plants)
Video directed and edited by Nao Nakazawa, Video shot by Gaspard Kuentz
Ooyamazumi Shrine, Nishiaizu, Fukushima on June 19, 2021
For more information and past events, visit here: https://www.facebook.com/iamflowerproject
A film and video installation by Nao Nakazawa
in association with Nishiaizu International Art Village
Short Narrative
Mitsuju - Short Narrative (2016)
Official Selection Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2016 Asian Film Festival of Dallas 2016 This is the final version, newly edited in the spring of 2020. This short fiction film Mitsuju is a period piece about the genesis of a monster called Mitsu-jū “secret beast” that consumes people’s secrets.
Experimental
Dark Cinema - Experimental Live Cinema (2019)
Suggested viewing method: keep your room as dark as possible, then adjust your screen brightness setting to the lowest as possible. DARK CINEMA is a video created by Nao Nakazawa and meant to be projected through several layers of neutral density filters resulting the projected image to appear extremely dark. Music was recorded at the live screening of this film at Artists' Television Access (ATA) in San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2019 Music by: Alien on Vacation Hj Moiij - bass, synths, and other noisy things Whatnao - violin, mandolin, voice & slide whistle
Kingyo: Gold Fish - Experimental Live Cinema (2017)
Film by NAO NAKAZAWA Music by ART MARU - flute JODY TENKU - guitar SAKI HAYAKAWA - voice SHIMON KATO - drums Improvised music was performed live to accompany the film at Nagano Cinema Lab's Open Experiment on Nov. 18, 2017.
Lola - Experimental (2012) 16mm
Found photos from 1920s' & 30s'. Shot on 16mm, texture added directly on the print and did optical printing. Hand processed. Film by Nao Nakazawa Music composed and performed by Meghann Welsh 2010
Merzbau: A Portrait of Kurt Schwitters - Experimental Documentary (2011) 8mm
This film was originally made for projecting onto three screens each depicting different side of Merzbau in order to re-create the atmosphere of the reconstructed Merzbau. Premiered at Artist Television Access in San Francisco California. During the period from 1923 to 1937, Kurt Schwitters decorated his studio using a concept he called Merz. Merz is to unite art with "non-art", appropriating fragments from his life which he used to describe and give meaning to the world around him. This film explores a reconstructed Merzbau, by Peter Bisseger, which was displayed in the Berkeley Art Museum in the fall of 2011. Features audio recording of the museum lecture by Mona Caron, the daughter of Bisseger.
Catch’em All (2016)
These are some of the things that I have been catching for the past few years. I quickly put this together in response to the recent trend of people catching things in public. The improvised music was performed live at the screening at Hase Temple Autumn Equinox Festival 2016 in Nagano, Japan. Violin - Nao Nakazawa Flute and voice - Art Maru Featured Art: Ah, Humanity! by Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel with Live Sound Design by Ernst Karel at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Plexus A1 by Gabriel Dawe Shinding by Patrick Dougherty 1.8 Renwick by Janet Echelman from Renwick Gallery in Washington D.C.
URVISUM - Experimental (2012)
Shot on Super8, Kodak Ektachrome 100D with Minolta D6. Director/Camera: Nao Nakazawa Actor: Zensuke Omi
Music Videos
Sponsored by Nagano Prefecture Active Artist Support Program of Nagano Prefecture Cultural Promotion Fund. Music Video Produced by The Factors. Co-cinematography and edited by Nao Nakazawa.
Korobushka - Music Video (2014)
Music by Hernandez Hideaway Music Video by Nao Nakazawa http://www.hernandez-hideaway.com/
Live Video Projection for THE FACTORS (2019)
THE FACTORS New Vinyl "LINDO" release party highlights featuring DJ K.U.D.O (Major Force) and Kenji Jammer (Simply Red) Video projection by Nao Nakazawa
THE FACTORS Promotional Video
2018 Promotional Video The Factors (formerly SAKi & the factor) is SAKi - Voice & Synthesizer Jody Tenku - Guitar
Filmed and Edited by Nao Nakazawa
Performed and Filmed in LAST GEAR TENKAWA - Tenkawa, Nara OPEN - Shinjuku, Tokyo CINEMA HEAVEN - Aoshima, Miyazaki INDICA - Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto & TENKAWA DAI-BENZAITEN-SHA Tenkawa, Nara
Dance & Performance Art
95 Rituals (for Anna Halprin) - Promotional Video (2015)
Hyde Street Pier and surrounding area, SF Free “Ritual is another word that needs a new definition… Ritual, as I use the term, refers to an artistic process by which people gather and unify themselves in order to confront the challenges of their existence.” ~ Anna Halprin Performed by inkBoat: Rachel Austin, Sherwood Chen, Heekyung Cho, Dana Iova-Koga, Shinichi Iova-Koga, Yuko Kaseki, Tim Kim, Joshua Kohl, Dohee Lee, Katherine McDonald, Crow Nishimura, Suki O’Kane, and Sten Rudstrøm
EGG by NAGANO CINEMA LABORATORY (2016)
Performance Art: Seiko Kitayama Live Cinema: Nao Nakazawa Improvised Music: Art Maru (flute & voice), Jody Tenku (guitar), & Shimon Kato (drums)
A Beautiful Machine (2011)
Directed by Nao Nakazawa
Choreographed and Performed by Minna Harri
Director of Photography: Eli Adler
BOLON - Short Narrative (2010) 16mm
Written, Produced, Directed and Edited by Nao Nakazawa
Starring: Michael Curran, Abigail Wick, Darya Chernova
Director of Photography: Mackenzie Mathis
Music: Timba Harris
Animation
KUMO - Animation (2017)
Animation and music by Nao Nakazawa
TRAIN - Animation (2012)
Poem by Shuji Terayama Film by Nao Nakazawa Poem translated by David Schmidt & Fusae Ekida Music: "Drumming: Part 1" by Steve Reich