Guests Ko Nakajima, Barbara London, Alexander Zahlten, and Fusako Matsu will help us celebrate the beta launch of CCJ’s Viewing Library beta testing version with a discussion around Nakajima’s works with screenings. In addition, Nakajima is offering a free screening of his key work, My Life for the month of January!

CCJ’s Go Hirasawa once again welcomes Masao Adachi in a live discussion on the occasion of two online screenings we will present in October and November. Join us for this special occasion to hear a deep dive interview with Masao Adachi by Go Hirasawa, with Julian Ross as the translator and discussant.

CCJ is pleased to co-present with Lightbox Film Center three screening programs under the Japanese Experimental Animation project, curated by Go Hirasawa (2/19), Julian Ross (2/25), and Fusako Matsu (2/11). In this first screening, we are thrilled to collaborate with curator Fusako Matsu and the Yōji Kuri Studio to present works by Kuri. Further, we are excited to welcome Ushio Shinohara and Reiko Tomii for a special post-screening discussion about Shinohara’s interview by Kuri. We are grateful for the support from Ushio and Noriko Shinohara and the Arakawa + Gins The Reversible Destiny Foundation.

Image: Still from Yōji Kuri, The Midnight Parasites (Kiseichū no ichiya), 1972, 10 min, color, sound, 35mm transferred to digital. ©️Yoji Kuri