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

[Yuriko Furuhata]

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, J?nouchi 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. 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

-- 
Yuriko Furuhata
Assistant Professor
Department of East Asian Studies/World Cinemas Program
McGill University
3434 McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 1X9
Tel:514-398-8164
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