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Curator and filmmaker Akihiro Suzuki will hold a virtual conversation after the screening of his film, Looking for an Angel (1999).
We are pleased to partner with Lightbox Film Center to screen Bye Bye Love in-person in Philadelphia. On November 19, curator and filmmaker Akihiro Suzuki will hold a virtual conversation after the screening of his film, Looking for an Angel (1999).
We are excited to partner with Tone Glow and Asian Arts Initiative to present the first North American run of DISTANT VOICES, the brand new feature film from Takashi Ito (b. 1956).
In honour of #GivingTuesday 2023, we have partnered with curator Fusako Matsu to present an exclusive, 1-week mini-program of three works by legendary animator Taku Furukawa - including the classic Coffee Break (1977) for free!
From November 21 - December 5, we are delighted to present I have no memory of my direction (2005), a feature-length work from Japanese-Canadian filmmaker Midi Onodera, along with a series of shorts. At once narrative, essay film and experimental travelogue, this work explores the layered relationship of the artist to her grandmother’s birthplace of Japan.
From August 18 - September 2, we are thrilled to present a two-week screening of a rarely-screened, newly subtitled work of Japanese queer cinema: Isao Fujisawa’s 1974 Bye Bye Love (バイバイラブ).
This May, CCJ welcomes back Akihiro Suzuki of Art Saloon to commemorate filmmaker Masanobu Nakamura, who passed away in March. In addition to our program for CCJ Members, Suzuki has programmed a special online screening, accruing some of Nakamura’s most notable works from various stages of his career.
The second of the two screenings in the series, “Stepping Out of Politics: Films by Masao Adachi” organized by Go Hirasawa will present Masao Adachi’s Female Student Guerrilla.
“Stepping Out of Politics: Films by Masao Adachi” addresses the intersections between film and the philosophical questions of what is politics, revolution, film, and ultimately media itself. This program will explore these questions through the two screenings and the live discussion on October 29th.
First of the two screenings in the series, “Stepping Out of Politics: Films by Masao Adachi” organized by Go Hirasawa starts off with Sex Jack (1970) directed by Koji Wakamatsu and screenplay written by Masao Adachi. Hirasawa will do a deep dive interview with Adachi about the film and more, on September 29th, not to miss!
“Stepping Out of Politics: Films by Masao Adachi” addresses the intersections between film and the philosophical questions of what is politics, revolution, film, and ultimately media itself. This program will explore these questions through the two screenings and the live discussion on October 29th.
CCJ presents the work of filmmakers Eri Saito and Masanobu Nakamura as part of our Meander Program.
CCJ is very pleased to partner with researchers Wakae Nakane and Miryam Sas who will present their curatorial project on our viewing platform as part of our Meander Program.
Image: Still from Hiromi Saiki, The Place Which Isn’t Necessarily Wrong [Anagachi machigatteru tomo ienai kū], 1996, 18 min, 8mm, sound, color
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). The final screening curated by Julian Ross features graphic designer Keiichi Tanaami, whose collection has been a focus of our research since 2018. The screening will include new digitizations of Tanaami’s She (1971) and Look at the Wood (1975), as well as Human Events (Ningen Moyō, 1975), which CCJ preserved in 2018. In the screening program, Ross situates Tanaami’s works in conversation with contemporary works.
Image: Still Keiichi Tanaami, She, 1971, 8 min. ©Keiichi Tanaami.
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 second screening, Go Hirasawa highlights two artists of the Three-Person Animation Circle (Animation 3-nin no Kai), a group formed at Sogetsu Art Center by Yōji Kuri, Ryōhei Yanagihara, and Hiroshi Manabe. In Hirasawa’s program, we are delighted to present the premiere of the digitally restored version of Ryōhei Yanagihara’s Sea Battle (Kaisen, 1960).
Image: Still from Ryōhei Yanagihara, Sea Battle (Kaisen), 1960, 20 min, b/w, sound, 16mm transferred to digital. ©Art Copyright Center.Ltd
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
This event is inspired by Yoko Ono’s second conceptualization of SKY T.V. in 1967 for the Lisson Gallery, which she described as “a T.V. just to see the sky. Different channels for different skies, high-up sky, low sky, etc." SKY T.V. 1966.
As the first step in Collaborative Cataloging Japan’s engagement and research with Japanese expanded cinema, CCJ is pleased to invite filmmaker Masanori Oe and curator Go Hirasawa from Japan to present Mr. Oe’s films in the 1960s to audiences in Philadelphia. Incorporating experiments with the materiality of film and using multiple projections, Mr. Oe’s newsreel documentary works reveal the artistic and political directions and conditions under which artists and filmmakers made their work.
Organized in collaboration with Collaborative Cataloging Japan (CCJ)’s partner researcher, Go Hirasawa (Meiji Gakuin University), this screening event underscores recent preservation and digitization efforts by international institutions and individuals. This screening will feature a new digital transfer of Masao Adachi’s Female Student Guerrilla; curator and scholar Go Hirasawa will introduce the program.
In conjunction with the touring exhibition at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979, Grey Art Gallery and Collaborative Cataloging Japan present experimental films by three filmmakers associated with the Nihon University in the 1960s. Curated by Go Hirasawa.
In conjunction with the touring exhibition at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, For a New World to Come: Experiments in Japanese Art and Photography, 1968–1979, Grey Art Gallery and Collaborative Cataloging Japan present Video and Before, a screening program featuring five Japanese pioneers of video art—Takahiko Iimura, Toshio Matsumoto, Ko Nakajima, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, and Fujiko Nakaya.
