Japanese Film Workshop is Back!
Naoki Yamamoto
naokiya at gmail.com
Thu Feb 11 05:03:53 EST 2010
Dear KineJapaners,
Please join us for the next meeting of the Japanese Film Workshop on
Thursday, February 25, from 7 to 9PM, at Meiji Gakuin University,
Shirokane Campus. PLEASE BE SURE that the venue has changed to *room
7418* on the 4th floor of the Hepburn hall (a tall building standing
next to the main building). The Japanese Film Workshop is open to all,
and directions from stations and the campus map are attached below as
a PDF file.
"On Nudity, Somewhere"
Jonathan M. Hall
Assistant Professor, Pomona College
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Meiji Gakuin University
Iimura Takahiko’s short film “On Eye Rape” (1962) includes what the
experimental director calls “subliminal shots against censorship.” As
this curious structure (the invisible exposition of an exposed
invisibility) reminds us, some sexual phantasies take their shape in
not being able to see or in remaining unseen. Moving between film,
photography, and flipbooks, this presentation considers the visual
logic of publicly visible sex in a series of Japanese avant-garde
visual works with especial concern for the concept of sexual
anonymity. In considering heterosexual and homosexual sex through the
scopic regime of “the invisible hand,” I hope to provide some initial
answers to interrelated questions: how does visual exposure sustain or
betray the concept of sexual anonymity? how have Japanese avant-garde
works figured heterosexual and homosexual nudity differently? at what
points do the scopic and corporeal regimes of heterosexual and
homosexual nudity coalesce? and does sex need to be visible for it to
be public? The works considered are all by male creators and range
from the early 1960s to now. I address Iimura’s Ai (Love) (1962),
Donald Richie’s Dead Boy (1967) and Cybele (1968), Yoshiyuki Kohei’s
The Park (1980), and Takano Ryudai’s Parapara: Maria—Toshihisa (2009).
For more information, please contact: naoki.yamamoto at yale.edu
Naoki Yamamoto (Coordinator)
PhD Candidate
East Asian Languages and Literatures/ Film Studies
Yale University
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