Hiroyuki Sekine / AICOT

Japan

Born in October 1957 in Tokyo, Japan, he graduated from the Department of Film Production at Tama Art Academy in 1981, where he studied filmmaking and in-camera editing under experimental filmmaker Akira Hoshino. In 1982, his graduation film "Boys' Dreams" (1980) was selected for the 5th Pia Film Festival. After graduation, he has been making video works exploring the relationship between his own body and the camera through subjects such as private landscapes and abandoned buildings scattered throughout Japan, while showing his own works at private film screenings such as , , and . His works have been shown in solo video exhibitions in 1993 and 2002, and at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in 2001. His representative works include Etude (1978), Boys' Dreams (1980), The Ruins of Roppongi (1992), U-O (1992), and Maya (2001).

Sekine has always projected and commented on his films at the screening venues, and has held solo exhibitions at galleries and museums around Japan.