Justin Kaminuma is a Japanese-American filmmaker. His work explores nostalgia and embraces internet-born aesthetics through a diaristic approach combined with mixed-media techniques. His films have been screened at festivals such as Ann Arbor, Chicago Underground, Leiden Shorts, and Antimatter, and he has directed videos for artists such as The Cure, Disclosure, and Vance Joy.
His work has been screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Leiden Shorts, BFI Future Film Festival (Winner - Best International), NFFTY (Winner - Best Experimental Film), Virginia Film Festival (Audience Award - Best Narrative) as well as exhibited at COSMO Trastevere in Rome and awarded a Vimeo Staff Pick.
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Education
Emory University
B.A Film & Media Studies
Summa Cum Laude
Ongoing
2024-Present
If You Were A Movie, This Would Be Your Soundtrack
2023-Present
I Belong Somewhere
2025 - The Life Of Your Dreams (In Development) - Short Film, 3:25
2025 - Are You Watching? - Short Film, 2:05
2025 - I Still Exist. - Short Film, 5:09
2025 - Before I wake up, take me somewhere nice, Diary, 1:20
2025 - The Last Thing I Think I Saw - Short Film, 14:52
2024 - 12 x 15 - Short Film, 3:11
2023 - Feelings From Your Past - Diary, 2:16
2023 - Dreams of Home - Short Film, 4:25
2021 - Moments In Between - Diary, 2:00
2020 - Finding Summer - Diary, 2:11
2019 - A Happy Montage, While Life Falls Apart - Diary,1:26
2018 - Moments of Lonely - Diary, 2:04
Music Video/Commission
2026 - Creator Camp x Justin Kaminuma - Collaboration
Editor
2025 - Disclosure, Leon Thomas ‘Deeper’ - Lyric Video
Director, Editor
2025 - rosevile sucks ‘if we never met’ - Music Video
Director, Editor
2025 - Flawed Mangoes ‘Anomaly IV’ - Visualizers
Director, Editor
2025 - friqtao ‘Run away’ - Music Video
Director, Editor
2025 - The Cure ‘Mixes of a Lost World’ - Collaboration
Director, Editor
2025 - Flawed Mangoes ‘Anomaly III’ - Music Video, Visualizers
Director, Editor
2025 - Caye ‘What It Was’ - Visual
Editor
2025 - Royal & The Serpent - Music Video
Director, Editor
2025 - Flawed Mangoes ‘Anomaly lI’ - Visualizers
Director, Editor
2025 - Flawed Mangoes ‘Anomaly l’ - Music Video, Visualizers
Director, Editor
2024 - Clubhouse ‘what a view!’ - Artwork
Designer
2024 - Flawed Mangoes - Visualizers
Editor
2023 - Flawed Mangoes ‘Killswitch Melodies’ - Artwork, Music Video, Visualizers
Director, Editor, Designer
2023 - bbno$, MAX, MILLI, Party Pupils ‘Girlfriend’ - Music Video
CRT
2023 - fraen, Scrufizzer ‘no one but me’ - Artwork
Designer
2023 - Snakehips, Daya, EARTHGANG ‘Sometimes..’ - Music Video
Director, Editor
2023 - Snakehips, BIA, Lucky Daye ‘Solitude’ - Visualizer
Director, Editor
2022 - Genevieve Stokes ‘Habits’ - Music Video
Cinematographer, Editor, Colorist
2022 - Vance Joy ‘In Our Own Sweet Time’ - Album Lyric Videos
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
2022 - Vance Joy ‘Don’t Fade’ - Lyric Video, Artwork
Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Designer
2021 - Clubhouse ‘Flipside’ - Music Video
Director, Editor
2021 - Montell Fish ‘Natural High’ - Music Video
Cinematographer, Editor
2021 - Arden Jones ‘Carsick’ - Music Video
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
2021 - Flawed Mangoes ‘2AM’ - Music Video, Visualizers, Artworks
Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Designer
2021 - Phil From Havéa ‘199X’ - Music Video
Director, Editor
2020 - Flawed Mangoes ‘Nothing Good Will Come Of This’ - Music Video, Artworks
Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Designer
2020 - dj poolboi ‘don’t be so hard on yourself’ - Music Video
Director, Editor
2020 - Fully Bold ‘Life Needs Haircut’ - Music Video, Artworks
Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Designer
2017 - Shallou ‘All Becomes Okay’ - Music Videos
Director, Cinematographer, Editor
2021 | ICA Boston x Scout Film Festival - ‘Artists on the Cusp’ - Interview
2024 | BFI SCENE - BFI Film Academy ‘Dreams of Home’ - Interview
Contact
j@alumni.emory.edu
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