HIKARU SUZUKI

Born in Fukushima in 1984. Works in Berlin and Tokyo.

He makes documentation, documentary film, fiction in Japan and Berlin as Editor, Cameraman, Director and works with TV Productions, Film directors, various Artists now.




[EDUCATION]

2004-2008 BA video art and sculpture at the Musashino Art Universityin Tokyo

2009-2011 MA focus on cinéma vérité at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences (IAMAS) in Gifu, Japan.

2014-2015 BA Montage at Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf

2016-2018 Diploma Narrative film and Experimental film at Thomas Arslan class and Nina Fisher class at Berlin art university.




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Activity

2018

Documentary Dream Show —Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Tokyo 2018

Rundgang screening with Eren Aksu, Hannah Schiefelbein, Yannick Spiess, Hazal Kara, Dane Komljen at Berlin art Universiy

Montage (Gallery KAYOKOYUKI 2018, Japan)

2017

Assembridge nagoya 2017 (Nagoya,Japan)

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival

HIKARU SUZUKI / REIJI SAITO Video screening (Gallery KAYOKOYUKI 2017, Japan)

New film Japan (Image Forum Festival 2017, Japan)

Winter show (KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo)

2016

NEO EDEN (Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, china)

Japan media art festival in Niigata (Japan)

Not a trace of doubt in my mind” Exhibition Azamino Contemporary vol.7 (Yokohama, Japan)

Video program by Yukiko Shikata in EEC / ECO EXPANDED CITY in WRO ART CENTER (Wroclaw, Poland)

2015

Art cinema vol.2 Hikaru Suzuki Film show (Art forum Azamino / azamino gallery in Yokohama)

In & Out of Japan Vol 2. (by curator Julian Ross, CAMERA JAPAN Rotterdam)

Asia Selection1: Hors Pistes Tokyo program (Institut français du Japon, Tokyo)

HIKARU SUZUKI SPECIAL (Nippon Visions in Nippon Connection 2015 - Japanese Film Festival, Frankfurter am Main, Germany)

Image Forum Festival 2015 (Japan)

See You on the Planet, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2015 (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography)

Slipping Out of the Circuit (Tokyo art university curated by Riku Iioka)

2014

Some Like It Witty (GALLERY EXIT 安全口, Hongkong)

COVERED TOKYO Hikarie 2014 (Tokyo)

Japan Syndrome (HAU in Berlin)

Distant Observations. Fukushima in Berlin (kunstraumkreuzberg Bethanien in Berlin)

Father and Mother in Talion Gallery (Tokyo)

10×10 Contemporary Artsits in Bauth filmtheater(Tokyo)

2013

BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW imageforumfestival 2013(Japan)

16th JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL Art Division BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW (Tokyo,Japan)

DENIZ TELERI Presents JAPANISCHER FILMABEND 4 Filme, 4 Filmemacher (Berlin,Germany)

Die Kunst der Intervention II – Projekte 2012 Ausstellung im ratskeller Lichtenberg Studios（Berlin,Germany）

2012

Kashiwa City Jack Asia Pacific Contemporary Media Arts from Daisuke Miyatsu Collection- (Chiba Japan)

Documentary film show - Interviews to speak, to listen, to watsch, ART LABO AICHI (AICHI,Japan))

BEXCO Busan Exhibition & Convention Center (Busan,Korea)

FILM THEATER Ooditoriumu-shibuya and Porepore-higashinakano The Shepherd’s Story / Shinjuku 2009 + Ogaki 2010 (Tokyo,Japan)

FILM THEATER Ooditoriumu-shibuya and Porepore-higashinakano BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW (Tokyo,Japan)

Muestra Joven in Cuba BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW OmnibusVol.9 selected by Hama Haruka (Havana,Cuba)

Tomoniaru Cinema with Us in Tokyo BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Omnibus Vol.1 04.2011 & Vol.2 05.2011 (Tokyo,Japan)

Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions -Improvisational omnibus Films BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Omnibus 2011-12 (Tokyo,Japan)

Hikaru Suzuki Film Show AOYAMA MEGURO (Tokyo,Japan)

TERATOTERA Festival Kichijouji NEO public MOVIE FUKUSHIMA-BERLIN (Tokyo kichijouji, Baus film theater,Japan)

Independent film festival - CINE DRIVE 2012 (OSAKA) Ms.S, Anrakuto (Osaka,Japan)

2011

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2011 New Asian Currents - The Shepherd's Story / Shinjuku 2009 + Ogaki 2010 (Director:Shinjiro Maeda,Hikaru Suzuki)(Yamagata,Japan)

Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2011 New Docs　BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW　SERIES (Founder:Shinjiro Maeda)(Yamagata,Japan)

The 16th Art Film festival BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Aichi Art Center (Aichi, Japan)

Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions - Improvisational omnibus Films BETWEEN YESTERDAY & TOMORROW Omnibus 2011-12 (Tokyo,Japan)

let in light curated by Kayoko Yuki (Shinjuku Gankagarou / Tokyo,Japan)

Do you hear my voice？Just forget it,if you don't like. makii masaru fine arts (Tokyo,Japan)

TERATOTERA Festival Baus theater "Mr.S" (Tokyo,Japan)

TAMA NEW WAVE Un Certain Regard „Anrakuto" (Tama,Tokyo)

Ongoing Xmas 2011 (Art Center Ongoing/ Tokyo,Japan)

2010

toratoratora!! (makii masaru fine arts / Tokyo,Japan）

IngIngIng (Art center ongoing / Tokyo,Japan）

House Keep out (Yokohama / Kanagawa,Japan）

Anlakuto (GFAL, Musashino Art University / Tokyo,Japan)

1st The KOENJI Documentary Film Festival 2010 GOD AND FATHER AND ME　(Koenji,Tokyo, Japan)

Ongoing Video festival (art center ongoing,Tokyo,Japan）

Suwa Lake Town Art Festial　Katakura castle „Anrakuto"（Suwa,Nagano)

2009

WORM HOLE episode 12（magical, ARTROOM/ Tokyo,Japan）

NO FUTURE NO FUTURE (Art Center Ongoing / Tokyo,Japan)

Ongoing X'mas 2009 Art center Ongoing (Tokyo)

Ongoing Movie Festival 2009 (Art Center Ongoing/ Tokyo,Japan)

everything is under control 2 (Jack and Betty/ Kanagawa,Japan)

2008

YOKOHAMA ART & HOME Collection (Show room space next to Yokohama Museum of Art/ Kanagawa,Japan)

The NEXT (Gallery stump/ Kanagawa,Japan)

Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 08 (The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma/ Gunma,Japan)

COW parade 2008（Tokyo,Japan）

10 years after (otto mainzheim gallery/ Tokyo,Japan)

CAAF 2008/24＋6 (Creare Aoyama Art Forum/ Tokyo,Japan)

ART AWARD TOKYO 2008 (Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery/ Tokyo,Japan)

Musashino Art University Degree Show (Musashino Art University/ Tokyo,Japan)

ZAIM Sound & Vision Vol.3 -MIACA- VideoScreening (ZAIM/ Kanagawa,Japan)

Tokyo-London art exchange (The Stephen Lawrence Gallery/ London, England)

Awards / Stipends

2013

Pola Art Foundation Artist Grant(Japan)

2012

A grand prize, Independent film festival Cine Drive 2012 in Osaka „Annrakuto" (Osaka,Japan)

2010

A second prize, 1st The KOENJI documentary film festival 2010 „GOD AND FATHER AND ME" (Tokyo,Japan)

2008

An special jury prize of Iida Shihoko, ART AWARD TOKYO 2008 (Tokyo,Japan)

A third prize, Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2008 (Gunma,Japan)

DVD release

2015

Anrakuto / Das Strahlen

Archive

2017

"FUKUSHIMA BERLIN" 311 Documentary Film Archive,YAMAGATA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL

Lectur

2016

About making film in Japan and Germany (Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences)

2010

Expressio practicum for third-year student (in sculptur class at Musashino art university)

Thesis

2011

cinema verite at the present day ~The movie "Anrakuto 安楽島" about Ms.A~

Book

2010

The 3th toxic girls review - Special topic・GOD AND FATHER AND ME

(Graduate School of Letters, Prof. YOSHIOKA Hiroshi(Aesthetics and Art Theory in Kyoto University) criticize about the film - GOD AND FATHER AND ME

Stage

2010

The viodeo in the Japanese traditional 女殺油地獄's - director Kim Itoh（Chiryu Public Theater)

Public collection

2010

tokyo photographic art museum