Between the Frames - Japanese experimental film on 16mm: prolific years 1975-1980 [1]
The Japanese experimental cinema movement became strong in the late 60’s, having it’s peak in the late 70’s. Toshio Matsumoto, who started making avant-garde documentaries and artistic feature film, and other predecessors, had a big influence on a new generation of film makers. Many of them were fascinated in exploring the mechanism of the moving image. This program highlights the peak period of Japanese experimental film, putting Atman (1975) by Toshio Matsumoto, which creates an extraordinary spatiotemporal sensation, and Spacy, by Takashi Ito, seriously influenced by Atman, as two merkmals. The films in this program, except Matsumoto’s and Ito’s film, have not been digitized, and their importance is underestimated both inside and outside Japan. For this reason it is a rare opportunity to watch these films in the original format.
In attendance of Koyo Yamashita - Talk by Julian Ross
Programme:
- Atman (Toshio Matsumoto, 1975, 11’, colour, 16mm)
- My Movie Melodies (Jun’ichi Okuyama, 1980, 6’, 16mm)
- Orandjin no shashin (Dutchman’s Photograph) (Isao Kota, 1974, 7’, 16mm, silent)
- Switchback (Nobuhiro Kawanaka , 1976, 9’, 16mm)
- Film Display (Shunzo Seo, 1979, 5’, 16mm, silent)
- Heliography (Hiroshi Yamazaki, 1979, 6’, 16mm)
- Why (Keiichi Tanaami, 1975, 11’, 16mm)
- Hikari (Nobuhiro Aihara, 1978, 3’, 16mm)
- Still Movie (Yoichi Nagata, 1978, 3’, 16mm, silent)
- Xénogénèse (Akihiko Morishita, 1981, 7’, 16mm)
- SPACY (Takashi Ito, 1981, 10’, 16mm)
Categoría:
- Proyecciones [3]
Fechas:
Local:
OFFoff Cinema [4]
Art Cinema OFFoff provides a unique platform for the displaying and research of experimental film. The screenings at OFFoff look back on the rich and vast history of film all the way into its most obscure and remote corners. As such, productions of the avant-garde cinema are often juxtaposed to more contemporary audio-visual creations of new and upcoming talents. Our focus on the formal aspects of film allows us to further demonstrate the seemingly endless plethora of possibilities of what one can achieve through it. As follows, we purposefully select works that bear witness to an investigative or deviant attitude towards the medium of film.
Additionally, the screenings are placed in a much broader perspective through lectures and debates to keep the discussion about the more pertinent issues within this context going. Furthermore, several films are also accompanied by experimental live performances and concerts which approach the formal aspects of film on a much more practical level. Thus, every OFFoff event is also a gathering place for film enthusiasts, critics, researchers and artists.