Media Histories / Media Theories & East Asia
February 7-8, 2013 @ UC Berkeley

Other Events

Film Series @ PFA:

"Chronicles of Inferno:
Japan's Art Theater Guild"
@ Pacific Film Archive (PFA)

February 7 - February 27, 2013

In February, BAM/PFA hosts the special film series "Chronicles of Inferno: Japan's Art Theater Guild," a retrospective of ATG films from the late 1950s through the early 1970s. 

The following "Media Histories / Media Theories & East Asia" conference speakers will introduce films in the series:  Roland Domenig will introduce Silence Has No Wings on Thursday, February 7th at 7pm and She and He on Saturday, February 9th at 8pm; Hirasawa Go will introduce Ecstasy of Angels on Friday, February 8th at 7pm; Julian Ross will introduce Children Who Draw on Sunday, February 10th at 3pm; Miryam Sas will introduce The Inferno of First Love on Sunday, February 10th at 5pm and Pastoral: Hide and Seek on Thursday, February 14th at 7pm. For further information concerning this special film series, please refer to the BAM/PFA website.

Film Series @ YBCA:

"Fragments of Japanese Underground Cinema (1960-1974)"
@ yerba buena center for the arts (YBCA)

February 14 - February 28, 2013

In February, YBCA hosts "Fragments of Japanese Underground Cinema (1960-1974)," a film series that features "a selection of radical highlights with historical significance from Tokyo's counterculture during a politically fervent and socially subversive period of its recent history."
The series consists of four film programs screened over four days: "Gewaltopia: Motoharu Jonouchi's Radical Visions" on Thursday, February 14th; "Films by the Group of Three: Iimura, Obayashi, Takabayashi" on Saturday, February 16th; "Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Films by Terayama, Matsumoto and Miyai" on Thursday, February 21st; and "Michio Okabe's Crazy Love" on Thursday, February 28th.  The programs "examine early experiments in collective filmmaking with the Nihon University Cinema Club; home-movie formats adapted for the purposes of artistic expression with the Group of Three; the redefinition of collage-film with Motoharu Jonouchi’s and Michio Okabe’s film-documents; an expansion of cinematic vision with a multi-projection program; and all-out anarchy with poet Shuji Terayama’s foray into film expression."
This film series is co-curated by Hirasawa _Go and Julian Ross, and co-presented by the San Francisco Cinematheque.  For further information concerning this film series, please refer to the YBCA website.

Art Exhibition @ SFAI:

"Gutai Historical Survey and Contemporary Response"
@ san francisco art institute (SFAI)

February 8 - March 30, 2013

In February and March, SFAI presents "Experimental Exhibition of Modern Art to Challenge the Mid-Winter Burning Sun: Gutai Historial Survey and Contemporary Response," the "first West Coast survey of Gutai (1954-1972), a significant avant-garde artist collective in postwar Japan."
This two-month exhibition "investigates an array of classic Gutai performative activities: smashing paint-filled bottles; full-body engagement with mud and cement; leaping through a series of paper screens; painting with feet. At the exhibition's opening reception, Bay Area artist and SFAI alumnus Guy Overfelt will break open the plane of painting atop a motorcycle in response to Saburo Murakami's 'Passing Through' (1956). Jeremiah Jenkins, also a local artist and alumnus, will respond to Kazuo Shiraga's 'Challenging Mud' (1955) by taking on the materials as a professional wrestler, complete with WWF-style theatrics."
In addition to the Gutai works on display in the Walter and McBean Galleries, SFAI will also present a series of exhibition-related events including a lecture, a panel discussion, and a film screening.  This exhibition and all its associate events are FREE and open to the public.  For further information, please refer to the SFAI website.
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