[KineJapan] Kinema Club at Nippon Connection this week

[Jasper Sharp]

It's a very good point. For those of us in Frankfurt who want to go, it would be useful to know where it is.


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Subject: Re: [KineJapan] Kinema Club at Nippon Connection this week

Dear Alex,

Thank you for your email. I’d be really interested! Would you let me know the venue?

Thank you and best wishes,
Eleanor

On Wed, 28 May 2025 at 10:11, Zahlten, Alexander via KineJapan <kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu>> wrote:

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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