[KineJapan] Japanese films at Close-up, London

[Roger Macy]

Dear KineJapaners,
I assume that anyone in the UK knows of the BFI’s Japanseason, running until the end of the year, but just in case it’s not oneveryone’s radar, I thought I’d mention the seasons running at ‘Close-up’ onHamaguchi, documentaries and experimental films.  I’d particularly recommend ‘Book, Paper,Scissors’ by HIROSE Nanako, this Friday for anyone interested in graphic arts,books or just a fine documentaries. I caught it at Nippon Connection.CLOSE-UP | Book-Paper-Scissors

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CLOSE-UP | Book-Paper-Scissors

In an ever-growing digital world, Nobuyoshi Kikuchi, who over the course of his career has painstakingly designe...
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Roger


   ----- Forwarded message ----- From: Close-up Film Centre <info at closeupfilmcentre.com>To: Roger Macy <macyroger at yahoo.co.uk>Sent: Friday, 29 October 2021, 12:58:10 BSTSubject: RE: November Highlights
 
Hi Roger,
 
  
 
Thanks for getting in touch. These programmes were curated in collaboration with some excellent independent programmers.
 
  
 
The Ryûsuke Hamaguchi season was programmed by Ross McDonnell, the ‘Cinema of The Self’ strand by Sunil Chauhan, and the ‘Urban, Natural, Human’ by Sonali Josh.
 
  
 
Best regards,
 
Jake
 
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From: Roger Macy <macyroger at yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: 28 October 2021 21:26
To: Close-up Film Centre <info at closeupfilmcentre.com>
Subject: Re: November Highlights
 
  
 
Very interesting and welcome.
 
  
 
May I ask who has curated these programmes, please ?
 
Kind regards,
 
  
 
Roger Macy
 
https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2021/festival-reports/35th-cinema-ritrovato-inhabits-bologna-with-joy-and-pride/
 
  
 
  
 
On Thursday, 28 October 2021, 11:27:11 BST, CLOSE-UP <info at closeupfilmcentre.com> wrote: 
 
  
 
  
 
Close-Up on Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Exploring Japan on Screen, Personal Documentary in Japan, Edge of Frame: After Images, Three Films by Edward Yang
 
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19 November - 5 December 2021
Close-Up on Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
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With a pair of new features premiering to immediate international acclaim – anthologyWheel of Fortune and Fantasy awarded the Silver Bear at February’s Berlinale and the epicDrive My Car subsequently winning the Prix du Scénario and FIPRESCI prizes at July’s Cannes Film Festival – writer-director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi has at last been rightly recognised as one of the most talented, fascinating filmmakers of his generation. Curated by Ross McDonnell, this programme is the first UK retrospective of this prolific filmmaker, and a rare opportunity to explore a uniquely-thrilling body of work. read more
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12 - 14 November 2021
Urban, Natural, Human: Exploring Japan on Screen
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Urban, Natural, Human is a touring programme curated by Day for Night, exploring art, architecture and design through the moving image. With its core themes of the built and natural environments in contemporary Japan, the programme will reflect on regeneration, recovery and creativity, not least in the year of the 10th anniversary of the Tohuku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster. The programme is framed through historical, current and future contexts – the impact of war, post-war regeneration, natural and man-made catastrophes, reconstruction and renewal, urban and rural development, the urban experience and the future of cities, while exploring Japanese culture, history and society more broadly. read more
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13 - 14 November 2021
Cinema of the Self: Personal Documentary in Japan
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This programme places its focus on one of the most disarming strands of Japan’s non-fiction cinema. Variously termed self-documentary, personal documentary or “I-film” (a cousin to the I-novel in Japanese literature), this form of auto-documentary-making began when Japanese filmmakers in the early 70s began to make films that pointed the camera either at themselves, or those closest to them. Distributing and exhibiting the results outside of commercial circuits, the films could take the form of home videos, diaries, portraits, confessions, or a combination thereof.  Curated by Sunil Chauhan, this programme brings together some of the best of the sub-genre to come from Japan in the last 25 years. read more
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27 November 2021
Edge of Frame: After Images
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It is 10 years since the artist, filmmaker and animator Robert Breer died and his impact on experimental animation practice is greater than ever. After Images presents a range of work by contemporary animation artists who have built on Breer’s myriad formal and conceptual innovations, taking his lead into unexpected new directions. Breer’s work collides radical discontinuity with cartooning and found materials, formally daring one moment, daftly humorous the next. This selection brings together a diverse range of work that connects to Breer’s in different ways, but is by no means a definitive survey, and indeed not all the films were made consciously or directly under his influence. Rather it reveals interesting connections between a range of new work and Breer’s, with the aim of stimulating ideas and questions about his legacy from a number of different perspectives. read more
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5 - 7 November 2021
Three Films by Edward Yang
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Continuing our ongoing Essential Cinema strand, we present three films from across Edward Yang’s career, including his urgent and enigmatic portrait of the clash of histories, sensibilities and cultures in modern Taiwan,Taipei Story – alongside the sprawling works that are his defining and lasting legacy:Yi Yi and the intimate but monumentalA Brighter Summer Day. read more
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