PiaFilmFestival

[matteo boscarol]

Dear Joseph,

thank you for your reply, I couldn`t agree more with your points.
Let me just add that, in my opinion, the PFF works at two different levels:

- as a platform to launch new filmmakers (Tsukamoto, Nakashima, Sono and so
on...) or, at least, to give them the necessary confidence in pursuing their
paths (as in the case of Matsui Yoshihiko for instance...)

- as a chance to experience a different approach to filmmaking*/***visual
art, the pleasure to enjoy a multitude of visions, often childish, rambling
and inconsequent but somehow more alive than the "regular" movies, even the
so-called "indipendent" ones.

Best

Matteo Boscarol
- Il Manifesto -
http://www.cineclandestino.it
http://artaud.wordpress.com

2010/11/28 Joseph Murphy <murphy7312 at ufl.edu>

> Dear Matteo,
> That's a great point.  The PFF has been extremely important in maintaining
> an independent eye on Japanese film, and imo there are a number of
> established directors whose most interesting work is in the Pia archives,
> for example, Yaguchi Shinobu's chaotic *Ame Onna* (Rain Women, 1994) and
> Hashiguchi Ryosuke's delicately observed *Last Night's Secret* (Yuube no
> himitsu, 1989).  These are a couple among the very fine directors, who got
> their start at Pia.
> There is plenty of work at the PFF that deserves close analysis, but also,
> as I think you may intend, there is a very important story to be told of the
> importance of the festival in bridging the collapse of the Japanese studio
> system in the 1970s, and the emergence of a new Japanese cinema, with a
> quantity begets quality ethos, in the 1990s.  It is a line in parallel with
> the pink film directors and Hasumi Shigehiko's Todai seminars.
> I have an article on Yaguchi that touches on the festival's importance:
> "Brownian Movement in Recent Japanese CInema,"
> Postscript, vol. 18, no. 1 (1999)
>
> I don't know where it's gone from there.
> yours,
> J. Murphy
>
>
>
> On Nov 26, 2010, at 4:14 AM, Me wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I was wondering if there has ever been an in-depth examination of the
> PiaFilmFestival, either on-line or in academic papers.
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Regards
>
> Matteo Boscarol
> - Il Manifesto -
> http://www.cineclandestino.it http://artaud.wordpress.com
>
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