Profile
MAEDA SHINJIRO
Born in Osaka in 1969. Filmmaker. Maeda presents his work, which spans across the mediums of video, media arts, and documentaries, at film festivals and exhibitions such as the Image Forum Festival, the Ebisu International Festival for Art and Alternative Visions, and the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. He actively plans exhibitions, collaborating with artists from theatre, art and other fields. He has been the supervising director of the DVD label SOL CHORD since 2005. His web movie project “BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW” won the Excellence Award in the Art Category of the Japan Media Arts Festival 2012. Maeda also won the 20th Keizo Saji Award (Suntory Foundation for the Arts) for the performance in which he directed the live stream, “MUSICA CRAS GIFU 2020 Masahiro Miwa Festival -Purified Night-” which was performed without an audience.
Professor of the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences [IAMAS].
Suntory Foundation for the Arts Keizo Saji Prize 2020
“MUSICA CRAS GIFU 2020 Masahiro Miwa Festival －Purified Night－”
(Video director：Shinjiro Maeda)
Suntory Foundation for the Arts Keizo Saji Prize 2017
monologue opera “THE NEW ERA” Masahiro MIWA + Shinjiro MAEDA
16th JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL 2012
Art Division Excellence Award
Contact: maedashinjiro@gmail.com
[Works]
“hibi”AUG 2008-2022 / FHD-digital / 120′ [about “hibi” AUG]
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW 2011-2021 (online)
7 blinks after a decade 2021/ FHD-digital / 35′ [68th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Catalogue]
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Omnibus 2011/2016/2021 2021/ FHD-digital / 64′
“pine trees #5 + high tide in snow” /2018/ with Masako YASUKI [gold leaf paintings with video projection series]
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Omnibus 2011/2016 2017 / FHD-digital / 43′ [YIDFF 2017 interviews]
“hibi”AUG [2008-2015]《THINKING ABOUT THE EMPEROR》 2016 / FHD-digital / 29′
web movie project “BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW” 2011 –
The Shepherd’s Story by H.584) 2009-2014 / FHD-digital / 42′
Constellation 2009 / FHD-digital / 20’ [ominbus film “Seeing” produced by Toshio MATSUMOTO]
“hibi” AUG 6 years mix [2008-2013] 2013 / FHD-digital / 50′
a video sketch “Songs of Imaginary Far East Islands” 2007 / FHD-digital / 20′
Wedding 2007 / DV, SD-digital / 15′
I do sambo, thinking of Chuya 2006 / DV, SD-digital / 10′
“hibi” 13 full moons 2006 / SD-digital / 96′ [YIDFF 2005 interviews]
on 02 2003 / DV, SD-digital / 5′
On 2000 / DV, SD-digital / 72′
[Screening & Exhibition]
2023
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
International Competition Program
Conversations with Documentary
YIDFF 2023 Interview Collection
“hibi” AUG Maeda Shinjiro (Director)
Interviewer: Murayama Kyoichiro
2022
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
International Online Competition
7 blinks after a decade 2021/ FHD-digital / 35′
2021
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW 2011-2021 (online)
2020
MUSICA CRAS GIFU 2020 Masahiro Miwa Festival – Purified Night –
Live streaming from Salamanca Hall (Gifu, Japan)
2019
“HIBI”《an object of metamorphose》AUG [2009-2018] / IAMAS Gallery 1
Pop-culture and Youth in Japan and Bulgaria / Sofia University St Kliment Ohriski（Bulgaria）
The 11th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions
A Citizenship Cafe for Art & Alternative Visions
2018
Documentary Dream Show—Yamagata in Tokyo 2018 / K’s cinema
Play back surface Ⅳ / IAMAS Library Art Space
Takao KAWAGUCHI “BLACK OUT” / UENO STOREHOUSE [Tokyo Buttou Circus 2018]
2017
monologue opera “THE NEW ERA” / The Phoenix Hall, Aichi Arts Center
ART FILM FESTIVAL / Aichi Arts Center
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
2016
The Japan Media Arts Festival 20th Anniversary Exhibition – Power to Change / 3331 Arts Chiyoda
Aichi Triennale 2016 ALA-SCOPE02 FILMMAKER from SOL CHORD / ART LAB AICHI
IMAGE FORUM FESTIVAL 2016
Moving Image as Live Performance 2 / Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
Beyond Sugar and spice Vol.2 / CAS
2015
Ogaki Biennale 2015 / Softpia Japan Center (Japan)
KINO VISION 2015 / Lumen Gallery (Japan)
JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL / Cinematheque Baguio(Philippines)
IMAGE FORUM FESTIVAL 2015
PLAYING BACK SURFACE Ⅲ / Aichi ARTS Centar Space X (Japan)
2014
The Shepherd’s story in Nagoya [with Inoue Shinta] / The Yamasaki Mazak Museum of Art
YASUKI MASAKO -LANDSCAPE SUICIDE- / The Art Complex Center of Tokyo
IMAGE FORUM FESTIVAL 2014 (Japan)
Distant Observations. Fukushima in Berlin /Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
Daily Reflections /Total Museum of Contemporary Art(Seoul)
PROJECTIONS VIDÉO ET RENCONTRE: LE FRESNOY/IAMAS /Institut FRANCAIS JAPON-TOKYO
2013
“A New Platform for New Memories” ARS ELECTRONICA 2013
IMAGE FORUM FESTIVAL 2013
Japan Day“Directors Lounge” / Black Box Kino in the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf
The 16th JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL [*Art Division Excellence Award]
2012
M・I YOSAKOI ART FESTIVAL / THE MUSEUM OF ART, KOCHI
New Adventures in Narratives, Ecstasies. / shunju-za, Kyoto
The 4th Yebis international Festival for Art & Alternative Visions / Tokyo Metropolitan Museum Photography
2011
ART FILM FESTIVAL / Aichi Arts Centar
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (Japan)
Kansai : l’autre cinéma japonais / Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris
POWER OF THE IMAGE – KYOTO CINEMA College week Vol.16
2010
seeing & traveling / IMAGE FORUM Matsushiro Comtemporary Art Festival – Asian Art Film Program
EXiS 2010 EXPERIMENTAL FILM and VIDEO FESTIVAL in SEOUL
OGAKI BIENNALE 2010
2009
Treasure-city / Shinjuku-CineCity
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (Japan)
PERCEPTION AND URBAN ENVIRONMENTS / Tokyo Wonder Site
2008
SOL CHORD SCREENING Deep Reflection /ZAIM
northern state / [FINNEGANS WAKE]1+1
digital images of contemporary art / AD&A GALLERY
2007
POKET FILMS FESTIVAL in Japan / Tokyo University of the Arts
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (Japan)
Ima – karada IAMAS in Tokyo Exhibition /Spiral Garden
SOL CHORD SCREENING Vol. 01 / VOX Hall Kyoto
2006
IMAGINARY CHUYA – Chuya’s words as image/Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (Japan)
Visions du Reel Nyon, international film Festival (Switzerland)
Garden of Images Vol.2/Sendai Mediatheque (Japan)
2005
“Music for ‘hibi’ 13 full moons”by Miwa Masahiro / NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
Videojournal.2/LA CASA ENCENDIDA(Madrid)
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (Japan)
2004
Art Channel Towada Vol.3 / Towada-city (Japan)
ARS ELECTORONICA – Movie Line/ method & Image (Austria)
2003
Planetarium (SOMA) /Club ASIA (Japan)
indies film nagano fes.2003/neon hall (Japan)
2002
KYOTO CREATORS MEETING-2 / Kyoto Art Center (Japan)
Etats geneaux du film documentaire/ ardeche images Lussas (France)
KYOTO X AMSTERDAM -New Directions/ Smart cinema (Holand)
2001
ONE SEANE /Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art (Japan)
interaction 01/ Softpia Japan Center
2000
The 24th Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hong Kong)
ARSENAL Japanese Independents Film & Video (Germany)
1999
At the Berlinale ’99 New Cinema from Japan/Berlinale ’99 (Germany)
Vanishing points -historical Programme Liquid Form:80’s&90’s / ICA (England)
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (Japan)