Neoneo & the Tsuchimoto retro (J + E)

[Mark Nornes]

There are a couple events going on now in Tokyo which might be of 
interest to some people here on KineJapan.

The first is neoneoza. This is a new theater near Ochanomizu run by a 
couple fans of independent and experimental film. The programming is 
being run by Fuseya Hiroo, the long-time producer for Ogawa 
Productions. Their opening event was a month or so back, and I 
neglected to say anything about it. But it was quite interesting. They 
had Tsuchimoto Noriaki and Fujiwara Toshi as guests, and the latter 
showed his documentary about Tsuchimoto's visit to the Flaherty 
Seminar. They also showed Ogawa Homonki, which documented Oshima 
Nagisa's visit to Ogawa Pro during the filming of Nipponkoku 
Furuyashiki-mura. It was an interesting combination, and Tsuchimoto's 
discussion was, as always, fun and exciting.

Neoneoza's second screening featured the work of Kanai Katsu. Missed 
that one, unfortunately, but the next volume is tomorrow (sorry for the 
late announcement). It's a lineup of private doc from women artists. 
Many should be on hand to talk about their work.

There's plenty of opportunity to talk, too. The place is small---they 
bill it not as a minitheater but a "microtheater"---and after the 
screenings they lift the screen and a window for passing food and drink 
out magically appears. So every screening ends up as a party. It's a 
very nice touch.

I'll paste the info for getting there below. Sorry, but it's in 
Japanese.

The other event is the big retrospective of Tsuchimoto Noriaki's work. 
This director has been getting well-deserved attention around the 
world, with visits to Taiwan and China after the Flaherty. Now Siglo is 
screening everything Tsuchimoto EVER directed. This includes the 
never-screened television documentary he did for Iwanami, problems with 
which led to the fateful formation of Blue Group. They just started the 
screenings last night with a stunning 35mm print of Document Rojo (yes, 
much of that PR documentary that preceded the breakout into the 
independent sector was done on 35mm...some of it in scope! This print 
will be screened again on August  5th). They ended the night with a 
symposium with Tsuchimoto, Kuroki and Sato Tadao.

The retrospective goes on for a month or so. Here is a link to the 
homepage with schedule and kaisetsu:

http://www.cine.co.jp/tsuchimoto/index.html

(And to Tsuchimoto's homepage, if you're curious: 
http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~tutimoto )

See you there!

Markus
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