Alternative Conference to SCMS

[Deborah Shamoon]

For those of you looking for something to do earlier in the week, Mimosa
Gallery in Omotesando will be screening films by avant-garde filmmaker
Yamada Isao and showing photographs by Endo Akira Tuesday May 19-Saturday
May 23.
Here is the announcement:

19 - 23 May 2009 Yamavicascope Kinema - Cinematographic poetry by Yamada
Isao EVENT

May 9 19:00 - Special screening of 5 short films including 'Nostalgia' shot
in Sweden.
May 19 - 23: Photograph exhibition by Endo Akira and Screening of films by
Yamada Isao.
Place: Yamanashi Hemslojd <http://yhi1971.com/> / Mimosa Gallery,
Omotesando, 4-3-16 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
150-0001 Tel: 03-3470-3119 mail at yhi1971.com

Born in 1952, Yamada Isao began his career as filmmaker under the
avant-garde art movements led by Terayama Shuji in the 1970s. Maintaining a
slight influence from that epoch, Yamada Isao has established his own
aesthetics in his films - subtle and dreamy, nostalgic and ephemeral but
sentimentally eternal. 8 mm film is almost always his medium and nearly 100
short films have been made. Some of them were featured and bought by
Oberhausen Film Festival 2004. Also in the same year, he was one of the
invited artists for 'Moderna by Night: Hommage a Meret Oppenheim' at Moderna
Museet in Sweden. His small yet imaginative cinema theatre called
'Yamavicascope Kinema' opens the door in Omotesando. Come to meet the unique
talent from the world of Japanese film, and dream the dream...!

Details on each screening are here:
http://yhi1971.com/isao_yamada.html  (Japanese only)
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