2012年12月6日〜2013年2月10日、ニューヨーク近代美術館（MoMA）（ニューヨーク）

平沢剛さん（2010年グランティ）がキュレーションを務められる「Art Theater Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema, 1960–1986」が現在ニューヨークにて開催中です。
本展示は同じくニューヨーク、MoMAにて開催中の展覧会「Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde」と同時に開催されており、多数のスクリーニングが行われます。


Art Theater Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema, 1960–1986

期間：2012年12月6日〜2013年2月10日
会場：MoMA（ニューヨーク）

詳細なスケジュールはこちらをご覧ください。
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1337

舞台挨拶やトークイベント
December 4th　5:00PM　Talk at Pratt University
Alumni Reading Room, which is on the 3rd Floor of the Library.
“Koji Wakamatsu in the context of Japanese radical cinema in the 1960s-70s”
Koji Wakamatsu, director and provocateur, who died several weeks ago, was the most important independent filmmaker in Japanese film history. Through a close analysis of his work, I would like to elucidate the political and revolutionary aspects of his cinema.

December 6th 6:30PM　MoMA, Theater 2, T2 (Introduced by Nobuhiko Obayashi)
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1337
Tenkosei (Transfer Student/Exchange Students/I Am You, You Are Me)
1982. Japan. Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. Screenplay by Wataru Kenmotsu, Hisashi Yamanaka. With Toshinori Omi, Satomi Kobayashi, Makoto Sato. With Toshinori Omi, Satomi Kobayashi, Makoto Sato. Obayashi, the director of the 1977 cult classic House, makes a rare appearance for the opening weekend of MoMA’s Art Theater Guild exhibition. His 1982 filmTenkosei is a kind of Japanese Freaky Friday: an astute exploration of gender politics disguised as a tender coming-of-age comedy. A paranormal incident causes an adolescent boy and girl to swap minds and bodies, leading them to discover the blessings and foibles of becoming the opposite sex. In Japanese; English subtitles. 112 min.

December 8th　2:00PM　MoMA, Theater 2, T2 (Introduced by Obayashi)
Underground Program I: Nobuhiko Obayashi and Yoichi Takabayashi
This program reunites two luminaries of Japanese underground cinema, Obayashi and Takabayashi, who with Takahiko Iimura set up the collective “Group of Three” and screened films together. Their innovative experimental 8mm movies were harbingers of their subsequent feature work. Iimura is the subject of his own program on January 12 and 13.
Nakasendo (Nakasen Road)
1961. Japan. Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. Digital projection. In Japanese; English subtitles. 17 min.
Emotion
1966. Japan. Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi. Screenplay by Obayashi, Kyoko Hanyu. With Sari Akasaka, Kyoko Hanyu. Digital projection. In Japanese; English subtitles. 39 min.
Hinanokage (The Shadow of Doll)
1963. Japan. Directed by Yoichi Takabayashi. In Japanese; English subtitles. 20 min.

December 9th 7:30 PM　Introduction and QA at Anthology Film Archives
SPECIAL PREVIEW SCREENING! FILMMAKER IN PERSON!
NOBUHIKO OBAYASHI: EARLY EXPERIMENTAL FILMS
Anthology Film Archives presents a special event featuring a selection of shorts by Nobuhiko Obayashi, one of the leading figures of Japan’s alternative cinema. Recently receiving attention for the re-release of his studio debut HOUSE (1977), Obayashi’s early experimental films range in tone from melodrama to comedy and vary in style from the emotionally hyperbolic to the formally audacious. A pioneer of ‘home movies’ in Japan, Obayashi formed film collectives with Takahiko Iimura and Yoichi Takabayashi, namely the Association of Three (Sannin no Kai) and the Film Independents, and went on to direct youth dramas co-produced by the Art Theatre Guild, some titles of which will be screened as part of the ATG AND JAPANESE UNDERGROUND CINEMA series at MoMA (December 7-February 10, 2013). Shot in 8mm and 16mm, the films in this program display a playful hand-made sensitivity and light-hearted exuberance that has been retained in his more recent feature-length productions.

The screening is a preview event in anticipation of a comprehensive survey of Japanese experimental cinema from the 1960s and 1970s, coming to Anthology in February 2013: RITUALS IN THE AVANT-GARDE: FILM EXPERIMENTS IN 1960s-70s JAPAN.

Obayashi will be here in person to present and discuss the program!

DANDANKO (1960, 11 min, 8mm-to-digital, b&w. Co-directed by Akira Hirata.)
THURSDAY / MOKUYOBI (1961, 19 min, 8mm-to-digital, b&w)
AN EATER / TABETA HITO (1963, 23 min, 16mm, b&w. Co-directed by Kazutomo Fujino)
COMPLEXE (1964, 15 min, 16mm, b&w)
Total running time: ca. 75 min.

December 10th　10:30-17:00　Workshop at New York University
“Radical Landscapes from 1960’s Japan: the Emergence of Landscape Theory”
In the late 1960’s, a group of experimental artists, examining the direction of Japan’s postwar reconstruction, coalesced around the idea of a critical “landscape theory.” This included, but was not confined to, the Art Theater Guild’s radical use of cinema.
This workshop presents a group of working papers, looking at the intellectual and historical genealogies of landscape theory, its connection to film and other media, and its relevance to the politics of architecture, urban planning, and everyday life practices today.

Monday Dec. 10
41 E. 11th Street, Room 741

10:30 – 1:00
•Alberto Toscano, Goldsmiths College, University of London
“Landscapes of Dead Labour”
•Tom Looser, NYU
“Radical Image Worlds”
•Yuriko Furuhata, McGill University
“On Maps and Networks: The Discourses of Fūkeiron and Metabolism”

2:00 – 5:00
•Go Hirasawa, Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo
“The History of Landscape Theory”
•Sabu Kohso, Independent Scholar
“Landscape in Implosion”
•Harry Harootunian, Columbia University
“Landscape’s Genealogy: Some Reflections on Its Theory”