Travels in Experimental Film: In & Out of Japan

Travels in Experimental Film: In & Out of Japan
  • Sunday, June 1, 12:30 p.m. Naxoshalle Kino
  • Japan, 1955-2013, 16mm/digital, 73 min, No Dialogue
  • Shibuya-Tokyo by Tomonari NISHIKAWA, Japan 2010, 16mm, 10 min
  • Super Up! by Kenji KANESAKA, Japan 1966, Quicktime, 13 min
  • Pacific Ocean by Takahiko IIMURA, Japan 1971, 16mm, 11 min
  • All that Rises by Daïchi SAÏTO, Japan 2007, 16mm, 7 min
  • Airliner by Hiraki SAWA, Japan 2003, Quicktime, 3 min
  • The Vipers by Shinkichi TAJIRI, Japan 1955, 16mm, 9 min
  • 45 7 Broadway by Tomonari NISHIKAWA, Japan 2013, 16mm, 5 min
  • Repeat by Stom SOGO, Japan 2006, Quicktime, 10 min
  • Tokyo-Ebisu by Tomonari NISHIKAWA, Japan 2010, 16mm, 5 min
  • European premiere in presence of the curator

'In & Out of Japan' curated by Julian Ross presents experimental films, video art and animations from the 1950s up to the present by Japanese filmmakers who live or have lived abroad. Bringing together films from New York, Chicago, Montreal, London and Paris, the programme questions the validity of the concept of national cinema in the context of those who no longer call their country their only home. Ranging from the poetic to the abrasive, the films resonate with one another along themes of travel and discovery as well as an aesthetic preoccupation with cityscapes and the frame.

 

Kindly supported by Andrew Lampert, Chicago Film Archives, Eye Film Institute, Giotta Tajiri, James Cohan Gallery, Marv Gold, Light Cone and the artists.

 

Shinkichi TAJIRI (1923-2009)
American artist with Japanese ancestry based in Paris and Amsterdam. Primarily known for his sculptures, he studied under Fernand Léger and was associated with the European avant-garde art movement COBRA.

Kenji KANESAKA (1933-1999)
Founding member of Film Independents, Newsreel Japan and Japan Filmmakers' Co-op who first traveled to the U.S. in 1961 and brought back to Japan a culture of 'underground cinema' and 'psychedelia'.

Tomonari NISHIKAWA (*1969)
Co-founder of KLEX and Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image.

Daïchi SAÏTO
Co-founder of Double Negative, a Montreal-based collective of experimental filmmakers.

Hiraki SAWA (*1977)
A London-based animator.

Stom SOGO (1975-2012)
Moving-image artist based in New York.

Takahiko IIMURA (*1937)
Pioneer of expanded cinema, video art and film installations in Japan and has lived between Tokyo and New York since the 1960s.

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