Haruka Doi

Haruka Doi was born in 1962 in Kanagawa Prefecture. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts. Her filmmaking activities began when in a contemporary art class, she recorded a film of white cloth fluttering in the wind with 8mm film to fulfil a brief of "making a work with white cloth." Doi belonged to the university’s filmmaking society, where she made both solo and collaborative work and held screenings on campus.

While studying at Tokyo University of the Arts, Doi also attended the ninth term of Image Forum's Imaging Research Institute. He Was Here, and You Are Here (中のあなた、今のあなた), a work created as an assignment there, won a prize at the Pia Film Festival in 1986 and in the same year won the top prize in the Turin International Young Film Festival 8mm Overseas Division. Doi participated in regular screenings of "STUDIO SWI'TZ", a video group consisting of graduates of the Image Forum affiliated video research institute, and continued to create works at a pace of around one per year.