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

[about “hibi” AUG]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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)