Image Forum Festival 98

[Aaron Gerow]

Joerg Buehler asked,

>I am planning to go two or three times to the Image Forum Festival in Osaka
>next week.The program is overwhelmingly large: more than 80 titles, but I
>hardly know one of them and my Japanese reading is everything else than
>fluently. Since the program has already been shown in Tokyo and Yokohama 
>during
>the last two weeks, there might be some recommendations of list members to 
>help
>me, not to miss the best works. May I ask for some titles or
>directors(additionaly to those of Aaron Gerow two weeks ago) from those of 
>you
>who are better informed than me?

Since my son was sick with chicken pox during Golden Week, I never 
managed to see any of the films in this year's festival.  (Though I would 
like to hear from people who did.)

Still, some other filmmakers I would recommend checking out include:

Suzuki Shiroyasu, the dean of personal, experimental documentary (Program 
A)

Onishi Kenji, the ever controversial (Program C)

Maeda Shinjiro (structural film), Oki Hiroyuki (impossible to describe), 
Kawanaka Nobuhiro (film as a nostalgic diary) (Program E)

Ota Yo, Miura Junko (personal documentary), Yamada Isao (Program K)

Utagawa Keiko (personal documentary) (Program L)

For those of you who also missed the IMF, it will be showing later on in 
Fukuoka.  Also, Image Forum usually runs a rather complete reprise of the 
Festival in its Cinematheque about half a year after the Festival.

Aaron Gerow
YNU