JPEX New York Program 4 Narrative Transgressions: Matsumoto Toshio

[Jonathan M. Hall]

JPEX:  Japanese Experimental Film & Video, 1955 - Now
Narrative Transgressions: Matsumoto Toshio
9:00 pm Friday, December 11th 2004
 
Anthology Film Archives
New York, New York
32 Second Avenue (at Second Street)
Telephone: (212) 505-5181

In 1955, Matsumoto Toshio?s now lost collaboration with avant-garde composer
Takemitsu Toru, Silver Wheels, helped inaugurate post-war Japanese
experimental film.  Since then, Matsumoto has embodied the mobility of
Japanese experimental video and film with a career that spans work in
criticism, theatre, documentary, and experimental and independent
filmmaking. In this program, we pay special homage to Matsumoto?s oeuvre
with a screening of his draq-queen melodrama, Funeral Parade of Roses, a
unique film that borrows the yet unpoliticized figure of male homosexuality
in 1969 Japan to launch a potent critique of Japanese society at the apex of
high-growth economics. A classic in Japan?s New Wave tradition, Funeral
Parade dazzles in its humorous amalgamation of documentary, narrative, and
visual experimentation. The feature film is preceded by Expansion,
Matsumoto?s celebrated explorations of new media. An extraordinary
triple-screen projection, For My Crushed Right Eye, the first
multi-projection piece made in Japan brings the evening to a moving close.
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: 132 m

Expansion, 1972, 14m, color, 16mm, sound

Funeral Parade of Roses, 1969, 105m, b&w, 16mm, sound

For My Crushed Right Eye, 1968, 13m, 16mm triple projection, color, sound

 

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