Wednesday, October 14 6:30PM to 8PM
Michelson Theater (NYU Department of Cinema Studies)
721 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY
Selected by film scholar Go Hirosawa, Meiji Gakuin University, this program of 16mm black-and-white films features two produced by members of Nihon University’s communist cinema collective in opposition and response to renewal of the US-Japan Security Treaty (Anpo): Pou Pou, 1960 (22 min.) and Wan (Bowl), 1961 (25 min.). Also included is The Martyr, 1963 (28 min.), directed by Katsuhiro Tomita, a film-production student at the university. Organized by Ann Adachi, executive director, Collaborative Cataloguing Japan.
This screening is part of the “For A New World To Come” exhibition featuring experimental Japanese artwork and photography from 1968-1979.
For more information visit: http://www.collabjapan.org/events/