Nao Yoshigai

Nao Yoshigai

38 (1987-01-01)
Yamaguchi, Japan

Born in 1987 in Japan, Nao Yoshigai is a filmmaker, dancer and choreographer. Her film is “dancing.” She choreographs image and sound for time to focus on “watching and listening” as a motion picture, based on physical sense and phenomena which are unique for living things. ‘Grand Bouquet’ is selected to the Directors’ Fortnight in 2019.

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hottamaru・days 2016 (5)

A female musician lives in a traditionally built Japanese house. There are spirits running around the house that she cannot see. The spirits are delivering smells that they collect around the house to a being inside the water of the bath tub.
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Wheel Music 2020 (7)

Rolling along on a bike or floating in a doctor’s office’s seasonal hamster display, Wheel Music explores the aesthetic feeling and social character of Sendagi, an old town in Tokyo under urban development in preparation for the planned Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Grand Bouquet 2019 (3)

A helpless woman confronts a “black object” with a power greater than hers. The “black object” shoots her questions. The woman has answers to these questions, but can’t say them aloud. She feels up against the wall, and begins to throw up beautiful colorful flowers instead of speaking.