This May, we are delighted to present a screening of three works by legend of experimental cinema Kohei Ando — the classic My Collections (1988) along with two cine-poems after Shuji Terayama, The Summer I Was Four and Astronomy of Love.

This April, we are thrilled to present (S)mothering Myself: Feelings in Renting a Mother (2024), a two-channel video work by Maari Sugawara.

This March, we are delighted to be screening a newly translated work by Mari Terashima — Fortress of Dreams (Yume no toride, 1991).

This February, we are thrilled to present two newer works from legendary animator Yuko Asano!

This January, we are delighted to present three works from Shun Ikezoe, a contemporary filmmaker based in Tokyo.

This December, we are delighted to present My father, burned (1994) a raw example of 1990s personal documentary from filmmaker and musician Haruka Doi, subtitled for the first time in English.

This July, we are thrilled to present a screening of two works directed by avant-garde artist Tamio Suenaga and shot by Naoya Kuroki. These documents of various performances and public demonstrations in the late 1960s are presented in partnership with Go Hirasawa and Shuhei Hosoya, as PADOCO (Postwar Art Documents Conservation Inc 戦後芸術資料保存).

In collaboration with VTape, this December we are thrilled to present Kyoko Michishita’s Being Women in Japan: Liberation Within my Family, one of a pair of documentaries exploring the experiences of Japanese women in the 1970s.

Our October Members’ Viewing features documentation by artist and inventor Ko Nakajima of two of the major displays of global technology of the 1960s, Montreal’s Expo ‘67 and Osaka’s Expo ‘70 (also known as banpaku). His film, which splices together footage from both Osaka and Montreal, offers a rare comparative insight into the two events.

Featuring the digitization projects that were part of the Community of Images exhibition, we are pleased to share with our members selected works and moving image materials that were on view during the show. September’s Members Viewing will feature selected archival reels by Jud Yalkut that were presented in Gallery B in the exhibition.

In August, as the promotion of the Video Letter Exchange between artists Nadia Hironaka, Shinpei Takeda, Hikaru Suzuki and Yu Araki continues as part of our Community of Images project, we are thrilled to present to our members two more works from participating artists Shinpei Takeda and Nadia Hironaka, with her collaborator Michael Suib. Both works use video as a means of exploring the ways traumatic histories resonate in the present day.

In July, to coincide with the release of our Video Letter Exchange between artists Nadia Hironaka, Shinpei Takeda, Hikaru Suzuki and Yu Araki as part of our Community of Images project, we are thrilled to present to our members two more works from the participating artists, Yu Araki and Hikaru Suzuki with his collaborator Franca Malfatti. Both works use video as a means of making imagined journeys between remote locations: Araki’s ROAD MOVIE (2014) documents a “road trip” performed with a fast-food menu, while in Suzuki and Malfatti’s video letter, its authors exchange fragments of their outer and inner lives in the year 2020.

This June, CCJ are thrilled to present a series of performance records drawn from a set of 1972 reels in the collection of Michael Goldberg, a Canadian video artist foundational to the early days of video art in Japan. Digitized in 2023 as part of our Community of Images project, the records feature Video Hiroba member and conceptual artist Gann Matsushita, a rehearsal of the avant-garde theater troupe Tokyo Kid Brothers filmed handheld by Goldberg, and other scenes captured by Goldberg with Matsushita around Tokyo.

From March-May 2024, as part of our Community of Images series and in collaboration with Hitoshi Kubo and Keio University Art Center, we are thrilled to present a three-month feature on the early Japanese video collective, the Video Information Center (VIC). The extensive program is a comprehensive introduction to the group’s tireless documentation of underground arts and culture in Japan’s 1970s and 1980s.

From March-May 2024, as part of our Community of Images series and in collaboration with Hitoshi Kubo and Keio University Art Center, we are thrilled to present a three-month feature on the early Japanese video collective, the Video Information Center (VIC). The extensive program is a comprehensive introduction to the group’s tireless documentation of underground arts and culture in Japan’s 1970s and 1980s.

From March-May 2024, as part of our Community of Images series and in collaboration with Hitoshi Kubo and Keio University Art Center, we are thrilled to present a three-month feature on the early Japanese video collective, the Video Information Center (VIC). The extensive program is a comprehensive introduction to the group’s tireless documentation of underground arts and culture in Japan’s 1970s and 1980s.

This February, as part of our Community of Images series and our Meander program, we are thrilled to present a feature on the screening collective Ground Level Cinema (グラウンドレベルシネマ). The group is comprised of members from both Japan and Taiwan, and the program features contributions from Johan Chang & Masa Kudo, Hsin-Yu Chen and Kenta Yamaguchi.