Sketch Film #1‑5 are a set of short “sketch” films Tomonari Nishikawa produced between 2005 and 2007 as everyday cinematic exercises. Shot on Super 8 (mostly in black & white, silent, 18/24 fps) and often single‑frame, they explore form, movement, composition, and perception in urban and public space. The filmmaker describes them as visual “sketches” akin to a painter’s sketches—spontaneous, fragmentary, minimal, attentive to line and shape.