[KineJapan] Kinema Club at Nippon Connection this week

[Zahlten, Alexander]

Hello Everyone,

If you are in the Frankfurt area, consider dropping by the Kinema Club Conference this week (Friday / Saturday / Sunday) at the 25th edition of the Nippon Connection Film Festival. The program is listed below. For information on the venue, simply send a brief inquiry to:
kc.at.nc.2025 at gmail.com<mailto:kc.at.nc.2025 at gmail.com>

We hope to see you there!
All best,

Alex


CONFERENCE OVERVIEW



Friday, May 30th

9:30 – 10:30: Panel A1

10:40 – 12:00: Panel A2

12:10 – 13:10: Discussion Session: Possible Futures



Saturday, May 31st

9:30 – 10:10: Panel B1

10:20 – 11:40: Panel B2

11:50 – 12:50: Discussion Session: The Graduate Student Perspective



Sunday, June 1st

14:00 - 15:30: Roundtable Discussion (Mousonturm Studio 1)

Discussants: Hannah Airriess (University of Indiana Bloomington),

Kenta Kato (Meiji University) , Takuya Tsunoda (Columbia University)PANEL SCHEDULES



PANELS:



PANEL A1: Landscapes of Cinema

Fūkei Cinema Expanded - Shayne Bowden (University of Sydney)

Fūkei-ron as Theory or History? - Markus Nornes (University of Michigan)

“Cinema Iris” as a Model for Local Film Culture and Film Production in

Japan - Roland Domenig (Meiji Gakuin University)



PANEL A2: Across Media Channels

Derrida’s Before the Law and Oshima’s Death by Hanging: the Question of Hallways in The Trial - Vivien Jiaqian Zhu (Stanford University)

Male-oriented Media and Gender Stratification on Film as Part of the Media Mix - Wei Lin Tan (Harvard University)

Voice as Nostalgia - Sound Media Representation in the Post-Silent Cinema Era - Eun Jeong Choi (New York University)

>From the Amateur’s Palm: Obayashi’s Early Cinema and Film Writings - Alexander Platt (Kyoto University)



PANEL B1: Mechanical Visions

On Technology - Takuya Tsunoda (Columbia University)

>From Camera’s Eye to Image Networks: Rethinking Art Cinema in Japan - Ziru Chen (Oxford University)

(Re-)Animating the Ruins: The Destructive Imagination in the Works of Ito Takashi - Hal Young (University of St. Andrews)



PANEL B2: Re-evaluating existing categories

Historiography of Benshi: An Introduction - Sonia Cutuli (University of Geneva)

Feudalism, Or Was It? Kinoshita Keisuke in a Transnational Context - Kevin McKiernan (University of Minnesota)

Ōizumi Akira and the Radical Potential of Program Pictures - Kenta Kato (Meiji University)

On Salaryman Films - Hannah Airriess (Indiana University Bloomington)

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