Umi Ishihara

Umi Ishihara is a Japanese artist based in London and Tokyo who studied intermedia art at Tokyo University of the Arts and artists’ film and moving image at Goldsmiths. Her films mix documentary and fiction, often with non-actors, around community, alienation, pleasure and vulnerability. Nocturnal Melody, following two dancers through Tokyo’s nightlife and shaped by her parents’ part in Japan’s 1990s free rave scene, was her first European solo show at Gasworks in London and toured to esea contemporary in Manchester.