[KineJapan] Director Tetsuya MARIKO in the U.S. for a year!

Zahlten, Alexander azahlten at fas.harvard.edu
Sun Mar 31 11:04:16 EDT 2019


Dear All,



I just wanted to share some exciting news for anyone in North America: from tomorrow for a year the director Tetsuya MARIKO will be based at Harvard University, in a similar way that Ryusuke HAMAGUCHI (Happy Hour) was based here for a year. That means if you are interested in inviting him to campus, to other kinds of institutions, and are interested in screening his work, this would be quite easy to arrange.



Mariko-san is without a doubt one of the most talented, smart and adventurous young directors in Japanese cinema today. He is the only person to win the main prize at the Yubari Fantastic Film Festival twice (in a row!) with his absolutely stunning experimental 8mm films in the early 2000s.



His films have been shown widely at international film festivals such as Rotterdam, Hong Kong Intl. FF, Locarno and so on. He won the best new director prize at Locarno for Destruction Babies in 2016 (and the film hit #4 on Kinema Junpo’s best ten of the year list).



Mariko-san had an interesting career trajectory, making international waves with his small gauge films while a student at Hosei University, and then going on to study at Tokyo University of the Arts to work with directors like Kurosawa Kiyoshi, where he shot the film Yellow Kid (2009) as his graduation film - again a film that won prizes all over the world.



He has additionally worked in music videos and TV, though often his work is difficult to categorize. If you are interested in seeing some of the films to consider which ones might be interesting to show feel free to get in touch with me; I believe Mariko-san has video links that he is happy to share with people interested in screening his work. It’s an amazing opportunity- and if you are in the Boston area please look forward to a retrospective in the near future!



With best wishes,



Alex


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Alexander Zahlten
Associate Professor
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harvard University
Director of Graduate Studies, Regional Studies East Asia

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