ILAN DERECH
Exploring time through photography and slow cinema.
Ilan Derech is a multidisciplinary artist exploring time and perception through still photography and slow cinema. His work transforms fleeting moments into immersive experiences where stillness and motion coexist. Rooted in street and travel photography, his practice extends and reshapes time, not as something to measure, but to feel. In a culture of acceleration, his pieces invite a shift from observation to sensation.
イラン・デレフは、静止写真とスローシネマを横断しながら、時間とその知覚を探求するマルチディシプリナリー・アーティストである。彼の作品は、日常における束の間の瞬間を、静と動が共存する没入的な体験へと変容させる。 ストリートおよび旅の写真に根ざした彼の実践は、時間を測る対象としてではなく、感じ取るものとして拡張し、再構成する。加速する現代文化の中で、彼の作品は観察から感覚への移行を促す。
Moments Between Stillness
Ilan Derech is a multidisciplinary artist exploring time and perception through still photography and slow cinema. His work transforms fleeting moments of everyday life into immersive visual experiences where stillness and motion quietly coexist.
Emerging from a foundation in street and travel photography, his practice begins with attentive observation and extends moments beyond their passing. By stretching and reshaping time, Derech invites a slower way of seeing. In a culture defined by acceleration, his works encourage a shift from observation to sensation, where time is not measured, but felt.
Exhibitions & Showcasings
Selected presentations, screenings, and installations.
Non Fungible Conference
An immersive installation presenting Living Memories, Through large-scale projections surrounding the space, the works create an environment where viewers are invited to pause and inhabit the moment. The installation uses repetition, spatial rhythm, and a restrained visual language to draw attention to micro-movements that often go unnoticed. As the images loop and evolve, the space becomes a quiet cinematic environment that transports viewers into contemplative scenes drawn from Japan.
Poetic Architecture
A large-scale architectural projection presented as part of Moments Between Stillness. The installation transforms the rigid surface of the building into a living canvas where water, light, and slow gestures unfold across the façade. The work explores the contrast between permanence and ephemerality. The strength and geometry of the architecture frame the softness and fluidity of the imagery, allowing the building itself to become part of the composition. Through this dialogue between structure and motion, viewers experience fleeting moments suspended within the monumental scale of the space.
Tour First, La Défense
Presented within the architectural interior of Tour First in La Défense, this installation integrates Living Memories into the vertical flow of the building. Towering digital totems extend the works across multiple floors, transforming transitional spaces into moments of quiet observation. Within the environment of glass, stone, and steel, the moving images introduce rhythm, light, and human presence. As viewers pass through the building, the works appear like windows into distant places, briefly immersing the audience in scenes where everyday life unfolds with cinematic stillness.
Collaborations
Selected interviews, features, and collaborations.
Street Photography in Tokyo
ZEISS · 2025
A collaboration with ZEISS exploring Tokyo at night through the Otus ML 1.4/35, capturing fleeting urban moments and transforming them into cinematic fragments of time.
Watch on YouTube →Interview: On Seeing & Silence
NOWNESS · 2024
A quiet conversation on process, restraint, and the choreography of light—how images become memory without announcing themselves.
Watch on YouTube →Ilan Derech
Mexico City, 1990
Ilan Derech is a multidisciplinary artist working between photography and cinema, whose practice explores time, perception, and the quiet poetry of everyday life. Born in Mexico and now based in Japan, his work emerges from the intersection of these two cultural landscapes, blending the observational traditions of street photography with the contemplative pacing of slow cinema. Through moving images and still photographs, Derech transforms fleeting gestures and unnoticed moments into immersive visual experiences that invite viewers to slow down and feel the passage of time.

