<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">Tomo was a brilliant filmmaker and teacher. I first met him in Jan 2018, and then invited him to present his work at Penn, where we had a public screening of about 7 short films in Fall 2021. I still teach <i>sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars</i> in almost every class. The news is heartbreaking, and he will be very, very missed.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>Julia Alekseyeva</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 20, 2025, 20:42 <<a href="mailto:kinejapan-request@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan-request@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send KineJapan mailing list submissions to<br>
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Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2025 20:42:04 -0400<br>
From: Peter Larson <<a href="mailto:pslarson2@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">pslarson2@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Tomonari Nishikawa RIP<br>
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There appears to be a GoFundMe.<br>
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2025?4?20?(?) 13:59 Markus Nornes via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a><br>
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> I just learned that Tomonari Nishikawa passed away. He was so young?.<br>
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> I got to know him because he was a frequent visitor at Ann Arbor Film<br>
> Festival, where he showed his work, participated in the selection process,<br>
> programmed some great Japanese experimental film, and I?m pretty sure he<br>
> was a juror one year. His films are great. If you haven?t encountered them,<br>
> go check them out:<br>
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> Tomonari Nishikawa <<a href="https://vimeo.com/tomonarinishikawa" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/tomonarinishikawa</a>><br>
> <a href="http://vimeo.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">vimeo.com</a> <<a href="https://vimeo.com/tomonarinishikawa" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/tomonarinishikawa</a>><br>
> <<a href="https://vimeo.com/tomonarinishikawa" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/tomonarinishikawa</a>><br>
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> I particularly like Tokyo - Ebisu.<br>
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> His presence was missed this year; now I know why. RIP.<br>
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> Markus<br>
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