JPEX New York Program 3 Sex Underground

[Jonathan M. Hall]

 Dear Listmembers,

Here is the program for the first Saturday program at Anthology.
Screenings continue through Sunday. For details on
Anthology Film Archives or the NYC schedule, please see
www.anthologyfilmarchives.org

Yours,
Jonathan M. Hall (UC Irvine) and Michelle Puetz (University of Chicago)

 
JPEX:  Japanese Experimental Film & Video, 1955 ? Now
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
Telephone: (212) 505-5181
Saturday December 11 6:30 pm

Program 3:  Sex Underground


The films, videos, and animation in Sex Underground rebel against workaday
conventions of gender, sexuality, and the body.  Utilizing theatrical
traditions and a powerful performative agency, film and video makers such as
Ito Takashi, Nakajima Takashi, Terayama Shuji and Imaizumi Koichi subvert
and then reconfigure sexual difference, queer subjectivity, and gendered
norms.  When viewed together, the works suggest that the sexed body was
never far from the center of postwar image experimentation; as individual
pieces, they open up complex worlds of transposed desire, indissoluble
fetish, and deadly seduction, . From Idemitsu Mako?s lighthearted invocation
of traditional gender roles and Tamano Shin?ichi?s perversely magical
realism to Saito Yukie?s terrifying and oppressive exploration of
male-female power dynamics, the films and videos in Sex Underground
collectively suggest unexpected, yet open pathways for desire and
subjectivity. JPEX: Japanese Experimental Film and Video, 1955-Now has been
made possible with the support of the Image Forum Archive Tokyo, the
University of Chicago, and the University of California Irvine.  Program
notes and curation by Jonathan M. Hall & Michelle Puetz. Total Running Time:
101m

 

ITO Takashi   Apparatus M, 1996, 6m, color, 16mm, silent

KAWANAKA Nobuhiro   Feedback, 1973, 8m, b&w, 16mm, silent

IDEMITSU Mako   Inner-Man, 1972, 4m, color, 16mm on video, sound

RICHIE Donald   Dead Youth, 1967, 13m, b&w, 16mm, sound

UEHARA Miho   Awanono, 2003, 3m, color, 8mm on video, sound

IIMURA Takahiko   Ai (Love), 1962, 10m, b&w, 8mm on 16mm, sound

IDEMITSU Mako   Baby Variations, 1974, 9m, color, 16mm on video, sound

IMAIZUMI Koichi   I Want You to Kiss Me, 2004, 5m, color, video, sound

KIMURA Takashi   Utsu-musume Sayuri, 2003, 4m, color, video, sound

NAKAJIMA Takashi   Investigation, 1984, 3m, color, 8mm on video, sound

TAMANO Shin?ichi   Kosoku Bozu, 2002, 11m, color, 8mm on video, sound

SAITO Yukie   Benighted But Not Begun, 1994, 22m, b&w, 16mm, sound

TERAYAMA Shuji   An Introduction to Cinema for Boys and Young Men, 1974, 3m,
color, 16mm triple projection, sound

 

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