Hiroshi Sugimoto

Acting

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Born

1948-02-23 (78)

Place of birth

Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

6 titles

Hiroshi Sugimoto (杉本博司, Sugimoto Hiroshi; born 23 February 1948) is a Japanese photographer and architect. He leads the Tokyo-based architectural firm New Material Research Laboratory. Hiroshi Sugimoto was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. He reportedly took his earliest photographs in high school, photographing film footage of Audrey Hepburn as it played in a movie theater. In 1970, Sugimoto studied politics and sociology at Rikkyō University in Tokyo. In 1974, he retrained as an artist and received his BFA in Fine Arts at the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. Afterwards, Sugimoto settled in New York City. He soon started working as a dealer of Japanese antiquities in Soho…

Known for

Kulturplatz poster
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Kulturplatz

2004

My Worst Nightmare poster
5.4

Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for things to start unravelling. Patrick is brash, uncouth and totally unselfconscious...

My Worst Nightmare

2011

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible poster
6.0

A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century, revolutionary of arts, aesthetics and pop culture.

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible

2020

Memories of Origin: Hiroshi Sugimoto poster
6.0

This documentary follows 200 days in the life of contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto— a leading presence in the world of modern art. He is the winner of many prestigious awards and his photographs are sold for millions of yen at overseas auctions. The film shows the sites of the Architecture series shot in southern France, the huge installation art work at 17th Biennale of Sydney, his new work Mathematics at Provence, his art studio while working on Lightning Fields, and more. It thoroughly pursues the question Sugimoto's works pose - "living in modern times, what are these works trying to tell us?" Memories of Origin is the Director's Cut of the program broadcasted at WOWOW on December, 2010. This documetary is expanded from a TV program which was honored is nominated for the International Emmy Award for Art 2011.

Memories of Origin: Hiroshi Sugimoto

2012

Camera Man Blues poster
NR

Hiroshi Sugimoto recalls his earliest memory of seeing the sea through the windows of a train, before transforming himself into a “human camera.” With shutters fitted over his eyes, he walks through three minutes of darkness—equivalent, in his temporal metaphor, to some 15,000 years of human history—before opening them for a single second of exposure.

Camera Man Blues

2026

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera