The Persistence of Vision

[Aaron Gerow]

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Sydney Film Festival, a 
symposium entitled "The Persistence of Vision: Fifty Years of the Sydney 
Film Festival" will be held at the University of Sydney from June 3 to 4. 
There will be keynote addresses by Adrian Martin, B. Ruby Rich and 
myself, as well as many panels on the roles of film festivals in Asian 
cinema, documentary and other fields.

The program is available at:

http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/rihss/sff50.html

The Sydney Film Festival itself will be held from June 6 to 20. Japanese 
films include Sabu's The Blessing Bell and classic works like The Face of 
Another and Ikiru. The festival site is at:

http://www.sydneyfilmfestival.org/2003program/default.asp

I hope to see a few Australian KineJapan members down under. (It's my 
first trip to Oz.)

Aaron Gerow
Associate Professor
International Student Center
Yokohama National University
79-1 Tokiwadai
Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501
JAPAN
E-mail: gerow at ynu.ac.jp
Phone: 81-45-339-3170
Fax: 81-45-339-3171