Jon Mueller + Tom Lecky, All Colors Present and Tomonari Nishikawa short films
non-Event and the revolutions per minute festival present
JON MUELLER + TOM LECKY: ALL COLORS PRESENT
Short films by tomonari nishikawa
thursday, october 9, 2025, at 8pm
The Cambridge Foundry
STEAM set performance space
101 Rogers Street
Cambridge, MA
Admission: $18 general / $12 for members and students
No one turned away for lack of funds
For information about accessibility call the Foundry at 617-998-2063 or email susanna@nonevent.org.
Non-Event and the Revolutions per Minute festival present a special double bill, featuring a live performance by percussionist Jon Mueller of his collaborative work with visual artist Tom Lecky All Colors Present and a special screening of short films by the late filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa, honoring Nishikawa’s unique artistic vision and enduring impact.
PROGRAM DETAILS
TOMONARI NISHIKAWA short films
sound of a million insects, light of a thousand stars (2014) | 2 minutes
Market Street (2005) | 5 minutes
45 7 Broadway (2013) | 5 minutes
Amusement Ride (2019) | 6 minutes
Light, Noise, Smoke, and Light, Noise, Smoke (2023) | 6 minutes
~Intermission~
JON MUELLER + TOM LECKY: ALL COLORS PRESENT
A sound and visual meditation
About the artists
Jon Mueller’s singular performance idiom is an awe-inspiring display of elegant athleticism, preternatural focus, brute restraint, and ecstatic, monastic reverie. Paired with Tom Lecky's photographs, it becomes a deliberate focus on form, shape and detail. It requires and demands a state of inner quietude from witnesses. Yet, from this seemingly metronomic exercise blossoms every possible tint and hue of infinite spectral sound.
Mueller studied jazz drumming with Hal Russell at Columbia College in Chicago, and singing with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Kirana Center for Indian Classical Music in New York. A prolific performer, he tours extensively and has appeared at festivals and venues throughout the United States, Canada, England, Europe and Japan.
Tom Lecky has worked in photography, music (as Hallock Hill), the book arts, prose and poetry writing, and literary criticism. His creative work concentrates on memory, place, and environment, the work of the imagination, perception, and the intersections of abstraction and representation. He often interweaves appropriated texts and images with his own, evoking a conversation with the history of book design and illustration.
Born in Nagoya, Japan, Tomonari Nishikawa moved to the United States in 1999 to study filmmaking at Binghamton University, later earning his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He passed away in April 2025, leaving behind a remarkable legacy as a filmmaker, educator, and cherished member of the experimental film community. A regular contributor to RPM Festival, Nishikawa’s work was featured in the 2019, 2022, and 2024 editions. His incredible expanded cinema performance Six Seventy-Two Variations, was presented in March 2023 by Non-Event in collaboration with Revolutions per Minute..
Nishikawa’s films have been screened at major international festivals and institutions, including the Berlinale, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Toronto, and the New York Film Festival. In 2010, MoMA PS1 presented a selection of his work, and his installation Building 945 received a prestigious grant from the Museum of Contemporary Cinema in Spain in 2008. At the time of his passing, he was a deeply respected professor in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University.
