Donald Richie and Japanese experimental films at Yale

[Peter Larson]

I suppose it probably doesn't count, but it's too bad
that he's not showing his own experimental films at
the event. 

Pete



--- Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:

> 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
> 
> 


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