For those of you looking for something to do earlier in the week, Mimosa Gallery in Omotesando will be screening films by avant-garde filmmaker Yamada Isao and showing photographs by Endo Akira Tuesday May 19-Saturday May 23. <br>
Here is the announcement:<br><br><span class="date">19 - 23 May 2009</span>
<h1>Yamavicascope Kinema - Cinematographic poetry by Yamada Isao</h1>
<div class="preamble clear">EVENT</div>
<div class="bread"><p>May 9 19:00 - Special screening of 5 short films including 'Nostalgia' shot in Sweden.<br>May 19 - 23: Photograph exhibition by Endo Akira and Screening of films by Yamada Isao.<br>Place: <a title="Yamanashi Hemslojd" href="http://yhi1971.com/" target="_blank">Yamanashi Hemslojd</a> / Mimosa Gallery, Omotesando, 4-3-16 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo<br>
150-0001 Tel: 03-3470-3119 <a title="mail@yhi1971.com" href="mailto:mail@yhi1971.com">mail@yhi1971.com</a><br><br>Born
in 1952, Yamada Isao began his career as filmmaker under the avant-garde art movements led by Terayama Shuji in the 1970s.
Maintaining a slight influence from that epoch, Yamada Isao has
established his own aesthetics in his films - subtle and dreamy,
nostalgic and ephemeral but sentimentally eternal. 8 mm film is almost
always his medium and nearly 100 short films have been made. Some of
them were featured and bought by Oberhausen Film Festival 2004. Also in
the same year, he was one of the invited artists for 'Moderna by Night:
Hommage a Meret Oppenheim' at Moderna Museet in Sweden. His small yet
imaginative cinema theatre called 'Yamavicascope Kinema' opens the door
in Omotesando. Come to meet the unique talent from the world of
Japanese film, and dream the dream...!</p></div><br>Details on each screening are here:<br><a href="http://yhi1971.com/isao_yamada.html">http://yhi1971.com/isao_yamada.html</a>� (Japanese only)<br>