Kinema Club X: at SCMS in Tokyo

Eija Niskanen eija.niskanen at gmail.com
Wed May 13 08:58:54 EDT 2009


Markus, I think Karen Severns, who has access to FCCJ, was planning to
shoot documentary film on Richie during the conference. I could ask
Karen if she has any ideas.

I am in Tokyo, so anything I can do, please let me know.

Eija

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu> wrote:
> OK. It's a go. Let's do it. Doesn't matter how many we have, but it will be
> good as usual.
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> Let's use this thread to do some brainstorming. Then form some threads as
> "subcommittees" if the need arises.
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> For those of you bored with this, apologies. Please exercise your delete
> button.
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> Kukhee, how many huddles could the Fukutake Hall accommodate? Do you need
> advance permission? If the place suddenly filled with "study groups" would
> we suddenly be negotiating with campus police?
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> Oliver, what kind of output does the Survey Monkey output? Seems like a good
> idea.
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> The onsen thing was a joke. People already have their hotel reservations,
> etc. It has to be in Tokyo.
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> I'll write some of our Tokyo friends on KineJapan and see if they have
> ideas. But chime in if you're one of them.
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> I'll also write to Patrice Petro and ask her if she could direct the SCMS
> membership to our survey. This should be a way for the SCMS conference
> participants to save their trip to Japan and meet their colleagues (and meet
> new people).
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> And, like Aaron, I'll write my special event guy—Richie—and see if he's up
> for something.
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> Markus
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> On May 13, 2009, at 8:07 AM, Kukhee Choo wrote:
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>> If anybody needs some space, there is a new Fukutake Hall at the
>> University of Tokyo which I have access to. There is a public space called
>> the "commons" and I have seen a lot of discussion groups doing their own
>> mini-workshops there.
>>
>> And I think the onsen idea is great. There is a really cheap place in
>> Hakone that has a conference room and everything. I think they accept up to
>> 50 people per group.
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>> http://www.shikiresorts.com/institution/kanagawa/forest/forest.html
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>> Just an idea.
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>> Kukhee Choo
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>> amnornes at umich.edu wrote:
>>>
>>> Oliver suggests an Kinema Club, and worries that it's stepping on
>>> someone's toes. I want to chime in to remind people that Kinema Club has no
>>> feet so there are no toes to smush.
>>>
>>> I think it's a splendid idea. Here are the two ways that it could happen
>>> under such short notice.
>>>
>>> 1) One or more of our colleagues in Japan could chip in with a space.
>>> Even one big space could suffice, as "panels" could be converted into
>>> "huddles." Each huddle goes off to a corner and people do their thing.
>>>
>>> 2) A distributed version. People find their own spaces for panels: hotel
>>> rooms, restaurants, coffee shops, etc. Put a goodly amount of time between
>>> panels. If we didn't think there was enough time to pull this off, then we
>>> could centralize it. Between panels everyone meets at, say, the south
>>> entrance plaza to Shinjuku Station. People find their huddles, and then peel
>>> off to a coffee shop or ramen shop to do it. Needless to say, this makes
>>> spectating problematic.
>>>
>>> 3) Weather permitting, do it in a public park. Too late for hanami
>>> taikai, but this of course would be easier than anything else. At the very
>>> least, the "main reception" could be a picnic with absolutely no fuss. BYO
>>> everything.
>>>
>>> I'll add a fourth: everyone stay at an onsen!
>>>
>>> Seems to me Kinema Club has its anarchic nature just for this kind of
>>> thing.
>>> Let's do it. I'm willing to put some time into organizing, but could use
>>> help.
>>>
>>> We can invite SCMS folk in, see how many there are, and then strategize.
>>> Even if there are only five of us, it will be worth it.
>>>
>>> Markus
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