Rei Hayama

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In Search of Colour (still), 2017

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In Search of Colour (still), 2017

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Reportage (still), 2017

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Crested goshawk (still), 2018

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Masked laughingthrush (still), 2018

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Oriental magpie robin (still), 2018

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Pallas’s grasshopper warbler (still), 2018

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Yellow cheeked tit (still), 2018

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Rei Hayama is a Japanese artist who works mainly with moving image, and one of the founding members of the Tokyo film collective, [+]. After many thoughtful experiences amongst wildlife in the unique environment of her youth, she studied at the Department of Moving Images and Performing Arts, Tama Art University and has been making films since 2008. Hayama’s films revolve around nature and all other living things that have been lost or neglected from an anthropocentric point of view. Through abstract film and video works with sound, poetic writings and symbolic imageries, Hayama gently seeks the harmonious connection between nature and human beings, bringing forward the invisible layers of our natural reality into the human imagination. Her works have exhibited and screened internationally, at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, New York’s Museum of the Moving Image, Bergen Kunsthall, Tromsø International Film Festival, and Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, amongst others.

Education

2012
BA, Department of Moving Images and Performing Arts, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan

Awards

2018
JFBKK Small Grant Programs, for “Toward the Tactile Visions”, Japan & Thailand
2012
Support for overseas travel expenses, University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, US
2011
Grants of UNIJAPAN, supporting and promoting Japanese films abroad, Japan
2010
Grants of UNIJAPAN, supporting and promoting Japanese films abroad, Japan
FUJI Award, 25FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb

Selected Solo Exhibition

2018
The Pearl of Tailorbird, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong

Selected Group Exhibition/ Screening

2020-2025
"Notes for Tomorrow", Independent Curators International, A traveling exhibition
2020
Busan Biennale 2020, MOCA Busan, Korea
NTT InterCommunication Center, Japan
2019
“Open Possibilities” Japan Creative Center, Singapore
Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea
WILDEN, Wolf Kino, Berlin, Germany
Groupe Maudit Festival, Munich, Germany
Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola, Donostia / San Sebastián, Spain
FILMADRID BONUS TRACK Pilarica, Madrid, Spain
MASTER LAV, Madrid, Spain
Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival, Birkbeck Cinema, London, UK
Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, UK
Delphi Arthaus Kino, Stuttgart, Germany
19th Nippon Connection Film Festival, Frankfurt, Germany
8 SUPER 8. DE LO DOMESTICO A LO INFINITO, Madrid, Spain
Animistic Apparatus, Alliance Francaise Cinema, Bangkok, Thailand
Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola, Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain
Flaherty NYC’s screening series “PUZZLING”, Anthology Film Archives, New York, US
2018
Seibutsu to taiwasuru oto, Bonjour! Gendai Bunmei, Kyoto, Japan
Alliance Francaise Cinema, Thailand
Chiang Mai University Art Center, Thailand
The Thai Film Archive, Thailand
2017
Doshisha University Kambaikan, Clover Hall, Kyoto, Japan
Museo CAV La Neomudejar, Madrid, Spain
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic
Center for New Music, San Francisco, US
Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Kurant, Tromso, Norway
Display BSC, Galeria Jozefa Kollara, Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia
63. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Spektrum, Berlin, Germany
Lichtblick-Kino, Berlin, Germany
KASK cinema, Ghent, Belgium
Tama Art university KAMINOGE, Japan
2016
Les Frigos,SCRATCH EXPANDED, Paris, France
Mount Florida Screenings, Glasgow, UK
Crater Lab, Barcelona, Spain
Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
A4 - priestor sucasnej kultury, Bratislava, , Slovakia
AEMI, Ireland
ECOLE SUPERIEURE D’ARTS & MEDIAS DE CAEN/CHERBOURG, Paris, France
Osaka, Cine Nouveau, Japan
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Yebisu, Japan
BOZAR, brussels, Belgium
University of Westminster, London, UK
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE, New York, US
2015
Tamabi Eizo Festival, Akiba Tamabi 21, Tokyo, Japan
CINEMATEKET, Oslo, Norway
UPLINK Factory, Tokyo, Japan
Northern Charter, Newcastle, UK
Close-Up, London, UK
Het Bos, Antwerp, Belgium
De Player, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Extrapool, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Schouwburg De Lawei, Drachten, Netherlands
OT301, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Akiba Tamabi 21, Tokyo, Japan
2014
National Robles Godoy theater, Lima, Peru
Japonica, Kyoto, Japan
Cafe Moyau, Okayama, Japan
Spazio Rita, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
100% CINEMA: Japon, Programa audiovisual de Rei Hayama, LA CASA ENCENDIDA, Spain
Fundacion Luis Seoane, A Coruna, Spain
Cinemateket, Oslo, Norway
2013
UNATTAINED LANDSCAPE, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy
The Star And Shadow Cinema, Newcastle, UK
color out of space, Brighton, UK
Vera, Groningen, Netherlands
Cavia, Amsterdam, Netherlands
WORM, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1335 MABINI ‘TYO>MNL>[+]’, Manila, Philippines
Green Papaya Art Projects 41B ‘TYO>MNL>[+]’, Manila, Philippines
Doshisha University -ghost of Cinema-, Kyoto, Japan
Exhibition “UNATTAINED LANDSCAPE”, Venice, Italy
Art Cinema OFFo, Gent, Belgium
TV Centraal, Antwerpen, Belgium
2012
Shin Sekai, Roppongi, Japan
San Francisco Cinematheque, US
Top Kino, Austria
Gunthers Film Club, Belgium
2011
California Institute of the Arts, US
Pompna College, US
Los Angeles Filmforum, Echo Park Film Center, US
2010
126 POLAROID/photo exhibition, Yokohama Museum of Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2009
SAYONARA Polaroid/photo exhibition, Shinjuku Ganka Garou, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Film Festival

2020
ONLINE SHOW/Istanbul international experimental film festival, Istanbul, Turkey
ONLINE SHOW/Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2019
Istanbul international experimental film festival, Istanbul, Turkey
FILMADRID BONUS TRACK Pilarica, Madrid, Spain
Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival, Birkbeck Cinema, London, UK
Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, UK
19th Nippon Connection Film Festival, Frankfurt, Germany
2018
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
2017
Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
2016
Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
MARFICI International Independent Film Festival, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Tromso International Film Festival, Kurant, Tromso, Norway
2015
Noordelijk Filmfestival, Neushoorn, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Media Art Festival, Westerkerk, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
JAPAN CUTS, New York, US
2014
Festival de lima, Lima, Peru
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
S8, A Coruna, Spain
FLEX, Gainesville, US
2012
CROSSROAD, San Francisco Cinematheque, US
50th Ann Arbor Film Festival, US
Image Forum Festival, Japan
International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
2011
European Media Art Festival, Germany
25FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb
Theatre Image Forum, Special Edition Screening, Japan
Image Forum Festival, Japan

Residency

2019
Objectifs Artist Residency with Documentary Dream Center, Singapore
2018
Toward the Tactile Visions, Chiang Mai & Bangkok, Thailand
2017
BANSKA ST A NICA, Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia
2015
Klanklanskippen, Popfabryk and theatre De Lawei, Netherlands