Donald Richie and Japanese experimental films at Yale

[Aaron Gerow]

JAPANESE EXPERIMENTAL FILM SERIES

This series of Japanese experimental films, organized in conjunction 
with a visit to Yale by Japanese film scholar and experimental 
filmmaker Donald Richie, is divided into four thematically-organized 
programs. Each program is made up of a group of 5-10 historically and 
artistically significant short films, arranged chronologically and 
shown in their original formats. Taken together, they demonstrate the 
richness and diversity of Japanese experimental cinema over the past 50 
years.
Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave, Room 203

Diaries and "Cine-poems" (Program 1)
Wednesday, October 4, 2006       8:00 PM

All 16mm films in Japanese*
The Song of Stones (Toshio Matsumoto, 1963, 30 minutes)
At Yukigaya 2 (Mako Idemitsu, 1974, 10 minutes)
Reflections on a Sunset (Suzuki Shiroyasu, 1975, 24 minutes)
Like a Train Passing 1, 2 (Kohei Ando, 1976 and 1978, 10 minutes)
Shishosetsu 5 (Kawanaka Nobuhiro, 1991, 25 minutes)
Total running time: 99 minutes
*no English subtitles

Animation, Structure, and Formal Play (Program 2)
Thursday, October 5, 2006       8:00 PM

X (Batsu, Shuntaro Tanikawa and Toru Takemitsu (1960, 15 minutes)
Musashino (Yoiichi Takabayshi, 1963, 15 minutes)
An Eater (Kazamoto Fujino, 1963, 20 minutes)
Human Zoo (Yoji Kuri, 1963, 5 minutes)
Illusionary City (Tatsuo Shimamura, 1967, 6 minutes)
Wind (Nobuhiro Aihara, 1994, 7 minutes)
WHY (Keiichi Tanaami, 1975, 11 minutes)
Atman (Toshio Matsumoto, 1975, 11 minutes)
Le Cinema (Junichi Okayama, 1975, 5 minutes)
Time (Sakumi Hagiwara, 1970, 13 minutes)
Xenogenese (Morishita Akihiko, 1981, 7 minutes)
Ultramint (Hirose Tadashi, 1980, 10 minutes)
Total running time: 125 minutes


New Currents in Japanese Experimental Film (Program 3)
Thursday, October 12, 2006       8:00 PM

Berlin im Winter (Ichiro Sueoka, 2003, 7 minutes)
Endlish ist es Fruehling (Ichiro Sueoka, 2003, 2 minutes)
A flick film in which there appear Liz and Franky, is composed under 
the score of ARNULF RAINER by P. Kubelka on NTSC (Ichiro Sueoka, 2000, 
video, 5 minutes):
Ein Sommer in Deutschland (Ichiro Sueoka, 2005, 7 minutes)
Rocking Chair (Shiho Kano, 2003, 8 minutes)
Blinding Noon (Nagaru Miyake, 2002, 27 minutes)
Gestalt (Takashi Ishida, 1999, 7 minutes)
The Art of Fugue (Takashi Ishida, 19 minutes)
Fleur (Yuiko Matsuyama, 2004, 6 minutes)

Total running time: 88 minutes

JAPANESE EXPERIMENTAL FILM SERIES SPECIAL EVENT WITH DONALD RICHIE
Thursday, October 19, 2006       8:00 PM
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street

35mm screening of Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog (1949) introduced by 
Donald Richie. Screening followed by panel discussion with Donald 
Richie and faculty from EALL, Film Studies, and History

Contact jeffrey.levick at yale.edu