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Against The Grain. Changes in Japanese Cinema of the 1960s and early 1970s
A Symposium of the Austrian Japan-Society for Science and Art (AAJ) supported by the Japan Foundation.
Programme:
| Monday, October 20th, 2003 | |
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| 14:45 | Opening |
| 15:00 | Roland DOMENIG (University of Vienna) |
| "Vortexes and counter currents. The advent of independent film productions" | |
| 16:00 | Mark NORNES (University of Michigan) |
| "Documentary codes in fiction cinema in times of political stress and artistic experimentation" | |
| 17:00 | HIRASAWA Gô (film scholar, Tôkyô) |
| "Underground filmmakers and their struggle 1958-1976" | |
| 18:00 | Surprise Film |
| Break | |
| 19:00 | Film screening: Tenshi no kôkotsu (Ecstasy of the Angels, 1972) |
| Director: Wakamatsu Kôji | |
| followed by a discussion with director and the producer Kuzui Kinshirô | |
| 21:00 | Film screening: Tôkyô sensô sengo hiwa (The Man Who Left His Will On Film, 1970) |
| Director: Ôshima Nagisa | |
| followed by a discussion with Hirasawa Gô | |
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2003 |
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| 15:00 | Max TESSIER (Film critic, Paris) |
| "The Power of the Imaginary in the New Wave films of the 60s and early 70s" | |
| 16:00 | Roberta Maria NOVIELLI (University of Venice) |
| "First traces of media contamination in Japanese Cinema of the 1960s" | |
| 17:00 | YOMOTO Inuhiko (Meiji Gakuin University, Tôkyô) |
| "Cultural milieu on film and the city of Shinjuku" | |
| 18:00 | Break |
| 19:00 | Film screening: Ryôma Ansatsu (The Assassination of Ryôma, 1974) |
| Director: Kuroki Kazuo | |
| followed by a discussion with Kuzui Kinshirô | |
| 21:00 | Film screening: Shinjû Ten no Amijima (Double Suicide, 1969) |
| Director: Shinoda Masahiro | |
| followed by a discussion with Kuzui Kinshirô | |
The symposium was accompanying the retrospective "Art Theatre Guild. Independent Japanese Cinema, 1962-1984" (October 4th-30th, 2003), organized by VIENNALE and Österreichisches Filmmuseum.
Österreichisches Filmmuseum (Austrian Filmmuseum)
1010 Wien, Augustinerstrasse 1
www.filmmuseum.at