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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hello Everyone,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Just to point out a great opportunity, Mana Contemporary in cooperation with Full Spectrum Pictures has started streaming a different film for free every in week in their
<i>Shorts from Underground</i> series.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This week’s film is Mariko Tetsuya’s extraordinary Far East Mansion (Kyokutô no Manshon, 2003, 32 minutes); next week from Monday that will switch to his brilliant follow-up
<i>Mariko’s 30 Pirates</i> (Mariko Sanjûki, 2004, 28 minutes). And on Friday, May 15, at 6:00 pm Central they will host a live-streamed discussion between Mariko-san and myself about the films.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This is a very rare opportunity to see Mariko-san’s early and quite legendary films - which won him the main prize at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival two years in a row.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Mariko Tetsuya is best know outside of Japan for winning the Best Emerging Director Award at Locarno for
<i>Destruction Babies</i> (2016) and for winning a whole host of the big film prizes for 2019 in Japan with
<i>Miyamoto</i> (2019).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">You can find the film and more about the program here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.fullspectrumfeatures.com/underground-series">https://www.fullspectrumfeatures.com/underground-series</a></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">And here is a link to Mana Contemporary:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p3"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://www.manacontemporary.com/">https://www.manacontemporary.com/</a></span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hopefully you have time to take a look-<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">All best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Alex<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">……………………<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><sup><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Alexander Zahlten<o:p></o:p></span></sup></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><sup><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></span></sup></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><sup><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations<o:p></o:p></span></sup></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><sup><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Harvard University<o:p></o:p></span></sup></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><sup><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Director of Graduate Studies, Regional Studies East Asia</span></sup><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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