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Kasumi
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Ohio
USA 		Contact Type: Artist
web: http://www.kasumifilms.com
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Bio:

Kasumi’s experimental films have been screened - and won the highest awards – in hundreds of venues worldwide. Her work - montages of hand-painted and figurative film, computer-generated images, sampled sounds and original music - has received the Adriano Asti Award for Best Experimental Film at Montecacini, Italy; Director’s and Program Staff Citation at the Black Maria Film Festival; the Seoul Film Festival’s Special Jury Award; IFP Chicago’s Best Experimental Film award and many others.

She recently presented her work, VJ style with The New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center. (see below). Her work has been screened at festivals in Iran, the Slovak Republic, Turkey, Japan, Korea, Romania, Italy, Germany, Holland, France, England, the US and Canada, and at distinguished institutions including Muzeul Florean, Romania; Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón; Buenos Aires; Itau Cultural Center, Sao Paulo; The Butler Institute of American Art; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; San Diego Museum of Art; and Anthology Film Archives. Her film “The Free Speech Zone,” cited in The Encyclopedia of Underground Movies, was recently featured at the Nemo Festival at the Forum des Images in Paris.

She has worked in every aspect of film and video production - from scenic painting for Ridley Scott to sound track production for Shohei Imamura to feature film script writing for Pat Morita. She is on the faculty of The Cleveland Institute of Art.

In addition to being a film maker, Kasumi is a musician who has performed twice at Carnegie Hall and who has recorded four LP albums; a theatrical production designer, a published author, and a composer. While in Japan, her soundtrack performance of Oginsama was nominated for an Academy award. Her written work includes two published books, over 50 newspaper and magazine articles published worldwide and a handful of feature film scripts; her music compositions include works for dance and theater. “


Filmography/Awards Info:

The Free Speech Zone
Kesshin ga Kataiyo ne
Surface Burst
Free Your Mind
Jimmy
Technical Aids
Places of Power: The Art of Bill Kohn
Madhouse
Fear
Wargames
Five Portrait Studies
Memories of a Dead Princess

Screenings and Awards:

111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, California
12th International Art Film Festival, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, June, 2004
31st Canadian International Film Festival
AFO (Academia Film Olomouc) Czech Republic, October 2004
Amsterdam International Short Film Festival 2003
Ankara International film Festival, 2002
Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2001
Antimatter Festival of Underground Film, Victoria, Canada, 2000, 2004
Around the Coyote Arts Festival, Chicago, IL 2001, 2002
Art Film Festival, Bratislava, Slovak Republic, 2004
Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Theatre, Chicago, 2002
Athens International Film Festival, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004
Berkeley, CA, Fine Arts Cinema
Best Moving Image, Cleveland State University Gallery Biennial 2003
Bitfilm Festival, Hamburg, 2003
bits&pieces@PBL - a digital art exhibition. Collaborative venture of the New Center for Art & Technology (NewCAT) and BizArt at Case Western Reserve University, Peter B. Lewis Building 2004
Black Maria Film Festival 2004, Director’s and Program Staff Citation Selection,
Blaffer Gallery “Single Channel: Collaborating with the Moving Image”, Houston Texas, 2003
Boston University, Dept. of Film and Television, Brookline, MA
CAMP ((03) internationales festival für experimentelle musik und visual arts Nov. 2003
Catacomb Microcinema, Winnipeg, Canada
CineFeel, London, UK
Cinefest Theatre; Pittsburgh, PA
Cinema Obscura, Santa Barbara, CA 2001
Cinema Slam, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty Show, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Cleveland International Film Festival 2000, 2001, 2002 Honorable Mention
Clone Digital Film Festival, Hameenlinna, Finland
Coffee House Theater, McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Columbia College Chicago, 2003
Continental Drift Film Festival, Canada, 2004
Coolidge Corner Theatre; Los Angeles, CA
Counterflow – San Francisco, CA 2003
CSAW-Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, Houston, Texas
CyberArts, Convergence Film Festival
D-Cinema Festival, Vierzon, France
De Anza College, Cupertino, California
Dover Film Festival, Best Short Film, 2002
Edgeworks Film Festival, Corpus Christi, Texas
Festival des Cinémas Différents de Paris, 2004
Fine Arts Cinema; Atlanta, GA
Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
HKFF Hamburg International Short Film Festival, 2003
Houston Main Street Microcinema, Houston, USA
IFP/Midwest Flyover Zone Short Film Festival, Chicago (First Prize, Experimental Film)
International Experimental Film Festival "Carbunari 2004", MUZEUL FLOREAN, Baia Mare, ROMANIA
Imperial Beach Film Festival, Imperial Beach, California, 2003
Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Itau Cultural Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2003
Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
Kent State University Art Gallery, 2004
Kinofilm Festival, Manchester, England, 2003, 2004, 2005
KLJUN, Subotica, Serbia, 2003
La Enana Maron, Madrid, Spain, 2003
La Noche de Cortos, Sevilla, Spain, 2003
Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, 2004
Licensed by Emi.Li.Tv, Italian television network for "Corti e Belli"
Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall with New York Philharmonic, 2005
Mad River Microcinema, Billings, Montana
Madcat Womens Film Festival, San Francisco 2004
Madurai Collective, Madurai, India
Mediaflow: Videoventure on electronic music, Stuttgart, 2005
Melbourne International Animation Festival
Melwood Screening Room, Pittsburgh Filmmakers Pittsburgh, PA
Mezzanine, San Francisco, California
Microcinema Independent Exposure 2002-2003 season
MIX New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2002
Montecatini International Short Film Conference 2003: THE ADRIANO ASTI PRIZE FOR THE BEST EXPERIMENTAL WORK For the ability to create a deep emotional involvement of the audience through editing, sound track and images
Mostra Curta Cinema – 9th Rio de Janeiro Int’l Short Film Festival 2003
Multimedia Microcinema, Skopje, Macedonia
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003
NEMO Festival, Paris, France, 2003
New York Gay and Lesbian Experimental Film Festival
Not Still Art Festival 2001, 2002, 2003 (sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts)
Out North, Anchorage, Alaska, usa
Overlook Park Shorts 2004
Picture Start Film/Video Collaborative, Providence, Rhode Island
Prime Shorts, Chicago, IL 2002
Project 101, Paris, France, 2003
Reel Noise, Seattle, usa
Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz, California
Rome International Film Festival 2004
San Diego Museum of Art
Seoul Net & Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea, 2002, 2003, 2004
Seven Minutes of Fame, The New Ivar Digital Cinema, Los Angeles, 2002
Short Attention Span
Siena Short Film Festival, Siena, Italy, 2003
Skol Rio 2004, Rio de Janeiro
Special Jury Award SeNef 2002, Seoul, Korea
Stuttgarter FilmWinter 2005
Super Computing 2001, Denver, CO
Tagawa International Short Film Matsuri, Tagawa, Japan
Texas A&M Universtiy Viz Lab, College Station,Texas
The American Cinematheque; San Diego, CA
The Anthology Film Archives, various screenings, New York, NY
The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Brooklyn, NY
The New Festival, New York, 2002
Tirana Int’l Film Festival, Tirana, Albania, 2003
Undercinema,, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Union Theatre The University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT
Urban 15, San Antonio, Texas
VIDEO SPACE - Metro Arts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
VideoMedeja, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
Wall of Sound, Seattle, Washington
Young Iranian Cinema 2002


Live at Lincoln Center:
In an innovative new production of Igor Stravinsky’s classic World War I era “Histoire du Soldat” (A Soldier’s Tale), Kasumi created original film/video art for three sold-out performances in the 2800 seat concert hall. Following two Brandenberg concerti, the 50 minute piece by Stravinsky was performed by Pinchas Zuckerman and principle players of the New York Philharmonic conducted by Xian Zhang. It was narrated by F. Murray Abraham, Marian Seldes, and Tim Blake Nelson along with a live puppet show co-designed by Doug Fitch and Kitao Sakurai.

The film/video art was played live by Kasumi onstage from a laptop alongside the musicians and actors. The performance included live VJ style mixing as well as animations that interacted with the actors’ lines and music.

The performers were rewarded with standing ovations.


Experimental Video and Music in Germany:
Kasumi was recently one of 19 participants in CAMP [03] (creative arts and music project) an international festival for electronic music, sound art, installation, and projected imagery held in Kirchentellinsfurt, Germany.

Artists and musicians from Germany, Spain, Portugal gathered for three intensive days and nights of experimentation and improvisation after which the fruits of their labor were displayed and performed. www.camp-festival.de www.kultur-unterm-schirm.de


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