IKEZOE Shun

Profile

Born in 1988 in Kagawa, raised in Osaka, and currently based in Tokyo.
Ikezoe is a filmmaker and artist. His work focuses on creating films that shed light on voices often overlooked in society and history by gathering personal stories or memories and reconstructing them into universal narratives. Using a wide range of media – including film and digital formats – he produces both films and installations, pushing the boundaries between cinema and contemporary art on a global scale.

Recent activities
2025 “ENCOUNTERS” (Project to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators Presentation Exhibition) TODA HALL & CONFERENCE TOKYO
2024 "Engawa,” Screening, Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, Lisbon
2022 "1st MIMOCA EYE," Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
2021 “59th New York Film Festival," Screening, Lincoln Center, New York
2020 "Marseille International Film Festival," Screening, Théâtre du Gymnase, La Baleine, Marseille, France

Awards and grant
2024 Project to Support Emerging Media Arts Creators of "Creators in Japan Production Support Program" 
2024 Mizuki Takahashi Award of "1st. MIMOCA EYE" by Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art
2018 Award for Excellence of "Image Forum Festival 2018 East Asian Experimental Competition"

About works

Ikezoe explores ways to uncover traces of everyday moments and voices that are often left out of history, transcending time and space. By combining film with digital media, he creates films that examine the chance connections between personal memories and the relationship between daily life and historical events. Incorporating analog film into his process enables him to remove temporal markers, expanding the perception of time and offering a fresh perspective on objects and landscapes. Through his work, he plans to carefully document fleeting moments and intimate emotions that often go unnoticed, navigating the boundaries between the ordinary and the extraordinary, life and death, and the visible and the invisible.