Theatre Scorpio Season at Close-Up Film Centre, London

[Julian Ross]

Hey everyone,

Theatre Scorpio Season at Close-Up Film Centre starts today!

Here is the programme:

http://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film-program/12-31-july-2011-theatre-scorpio-japanese-independent-and-experimental-cinema-of-the-1960s-2.html

Close-Up Film Centre presents:

THEATRE SCORPIO SEASON: JAPANESE INDEPENDENT AND EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA OF THE 1960s

Named by Yukio Mishima after Kenneth Anger’s film Scorpio Rising, Theatre Scorpio (Sasori-za) was a legendary underground art space beneath the Art Theatre Guild’s Art Theatre Shinjuku Bunka. The venue quickly became a centre of activity for all corners of the 1960s arts scene, offering a platform for performance art, theatre, dance and screenings of avant-garde films. Although their autonomous voices were characterised by diversity in approach and style, the artists were united by their urge for individual expression and a desire for a space to share their ideas. Theatre Scorpio met their needs and became a nexus for their experiments.

PROGRAMME:
Tuesday 12th July - 8pm
Studies in Movement: Experiments by Three Filmmakers

An Eater (Nobuhiko Obayashi & Kazutomo Fujino) (1963 | 23 mins | 16mm)
Complex (Nobuhiko Obayashi) (1964 | 15 mins | 16mm)
Wan (Nihon University Film Studies Club) (1961 | 25 mins | 16mm)
Yunbogi's Diary (Nagisa Oshima) (1965 | 30 mins | 16mm)
-----Introduction by Julian Ross (University of Leeds/Mixed Cinema Network)

Tuesday 19th July - 8pm
Motoharu Jonouchi: Avant-Garde Visions of 1960s Protest Movements

Pupu (Nihon University Film Studies Club) (1960 | 22 mins | 16mm)
Document 6.15 (Motoharu Jonouchi) (1961 | 19 mins | 16mm)
Wols (Motoharu Jonouchi) (1965 | 19 mins | 16mm)
Tatsumi Hijikata (Motoharu Jonouchi) (1967 | 1 min | 16mm)
Mass Collective Bargaining at Nihon University (Motoharu Jonouchi) (1968 | 22 mins | Silent | 16mm)
-----Introduction by Julian Ross (University of Leeds/Mixed Cinema Network)
-----Discussion with Shane O’Sullivan (E2 Films; Director of ‘Children of the Revolution’ (2011)) 

Tuesday 26th July - 8pm
Galaxy (Masao Adachi) (1967 | 75 mins | Digital) (New English Subtitles)
-----Introduction by Go Hirasawa (Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo)

Thursday 28th July - 8pm
An Evening with Katsu Kanai: Smiling Milky Way

Desert Archipelago (Katsu Kanai) (1969 | 56 mins | Digital)
Good-Bye (Katsu Kanai) (1971 | 52 mins | Digital)
-----Introduction and Q&A with filmmaker Katsu Kanai

Tickets:
£9 for non-members; £5 for Close-Up members.
Season Ticket:
£25 for non-members; £15 for Close-Up members.

Visitor Information:
BETHNAL GREEN WORKING MEN’S CLUB
44-46 Pollard Row | London E2 6NB

 		 	   		  
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