from livia,Upcoming Film Festival & Symposium on Japanese Experimental Cinema, September 2011

[rodica livia monnet]

This looks great Yuri. Hoping you will get the funding for the sympsium and
the rest.best,livia

Le 11-05-26 12:38, « Yuriko Furuhata » <yuriko.furuhata at mcgill.ca> a écrit :

>    Dear all,
>  
>  In collaboration with the Cinematheque Quebecoise and colleagues from McGill
> University & Concordia University, I'm organizing a three-day film festival
> and a one-day symposium, entitled "Visual Underground: Theatre Scorpio &
> Japanese Experimental Cinema of the Sixties" to be held in Montreal this
> September. This event will take place on the weekend of September 16th (Fri),
> 17th (Sat), and 18th (Sun). This event is designed to accompany a large
> retrospective on the Art Theatre Guild films (which will be traveling from
> Paris, London, and to Montreal this summer/fall), hosted by the Cinematheque
> Quebecoise. The confirmed keynote speaker for this joint celebration of
> Japanese avant-garde and experimental cinema of the 1960s and 1970s, is the
> eminent filmmaker and theorist Matsumoto Toshio.
>  
>  As some of you may already know from Julian's email, the BFI and Birkbeck
> College will be hosting the London counterpart of the ATG Retrospective and a
> symposium in July. If you are in North America, and cannot go to London to
> catch these exciting films, please do come to Montreal!
>  
>  We are still in the process of finalizing the program, but the experimental
> film program part of "Visual Underground" that will run from Sept 16th-18th
> will screen works of the following filmmakers: Matsumoto Toshio, Oshima
> Nagisa, Adachi Masao, Jônouchi Motoharu, and Okabe Michio.
>  
>  I will follow up with more detailed information about the event, and will
> send you a link to the website soon. In the meantime, if you are interested in
> coming to Montreal to attend the screenings and the symposium, and looking for
> an affordable accommodation, the following website is very useful:
> www.airbnb.com <http://www.airbnb.com> . Just to let you know, most of the
> event will take place at various venues in downtown Montreal, around McGill
> University and Concordia University. Please do mark your calendar, and I hope
> very much to see you here.
>  
>  Best wishes,
>  Yuri
>  
>   

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