[KineJapan] Toshio Matsumoto Digital Archive

[sissu tarka]

dear aaron, markus,
those are marvellous, also very john cage-y.
thank you for bringing that 'dusty stuff' to attention.

ALL: a very HAPPY NEW YEAR and anime spirits with us, the planets, and  
satellites.


verina







Quoting Markus Nornes via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>:

> These are stunning. There have been glimpses of these graphic scripts in
> various publications and as design elements in the DVD box set. And
> Matsumoto-san gave me a copy of *Shiki Soku Ze Ku's* scenario for my
> calligraphy book, so I had seen this. But this collection shows how it was
> an important way that he approached filmmaking from conceptualization to
> editing as a kind of scoring. Seeing them lined up like this is powerful.
> By 1963, he was already *thinking graphically. *The storyboard for *For My
> Crushed Right Eye* actually looks like a timeline in Premiere or FCP! Even
> in thumbnail form they are a thing of beauty. There have been some bumps in
> this project, and I'm thrilled to see it take off.
>
> Markus
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> *Markus Nornes*
> *Professor of Asian Cinema*
> Department of Film, Television and Media, Department of Asian Languages and
> Cultures, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design
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> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 10:49 PM Gerow Aaron via KineJapan <
> kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:
>
>> The Postwar Japan Moving Image Archive website has started uploading
>> materials to the Toshio Matsumoto Digital Archive. The first batch is
>> storyboards for some of Matsumoto's most famous experimental shorts, such
>> as Song of Stones, For the Damaged Right Eye, and Atman.
>>
>> https://pjmia.wordpress.com/toshio_matsumoto_digital_archive/
>>
>>
>> Aaron Gerow
>> Professor
>> Film and Media Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
>> Chair, East Asian Languages and Literatures
>> Yale University
>> 143 Elm Street, Room 210
>> PO Box 208324
>> New Haven, CT 06520-8324
>> USA
>> Phone: 1-203-432-7082
>> Fax: 1-203-432-6729
>> e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
>> website: www.aarongerow.com
>>
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