Event Details
Date & Time:
Thu February 16, 2017 - Fri February 17, 2017
Location:
The Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
Audience:
Open to the public
Details:
Presented as a cinematic compliment to the Art Institute of Chicago’s contemporaneous exhibition, Provoke: Photography in Japan between Protest and Performance, 1960–1975, these three screenings provide an opportunity to explore the historical intersection of experimental filmmaking with documentary cinema traditions in a period of radical social and political change. Scholar and curator Hirasawa Gō, and director Masanori
Program A: Motoharu Jonouchi and Nihon University Film Club
Thursday, February 16, 2017 7:00 PM
Jonouchi Motoharu was instrumental in the formation and gathering of multiple artistic and anti-art endeavors including the Nihon University Film Club, VAN film research center, and the Neo-Dadaists, often living and sharing
1. Wan (Bowl) (Nihon University New Cinema Club, 1961, 25min 16mm)
2. Gewaltpia Trailer (Motoharu Jonouchi, 1969, 13min, 16mm)
3. Shinjuku Station (Motoharu Jonouchi, 1974, 14min, 16mm)
4. PuPu (Nihon University Film Club, 1960, 25min, 16mm
Program B: Structures and Cinema
Friday, February 17, 2017 5:00 PM
The films in this program all address, in differing ways, the issue of structure. Kenji Kanesaka’s Super Up examines the social structures that produce inequality in the city of Chicago, while Toshio Matsumoto’s Song of Stone and Toru Hamada’s Rope examine the fundamental elements – the image, sound, and time - that structure the cinematic medium itself. Takuma Nakahira, the photographer and co-founder of Provoke magazine currently on display at The Art Institute of Chicago, shot Rope - an example of how the photographers associated with the magazine experimented with the moving as well as the still image.
1. Song of Stone (Toshio Matsumoto, 1963, 24min, digital)
2. Super Up (Kenji Kanesaka 1964, 12min, digital) provided courtesy of The Chicago Film Archives
3. Rope (Toru Hamada, 1969, 37min, digital)
Program C: Newsreel Documentaries of Masanori Oe
Friday, February 17, 2017 7:00 PM
Oe Masanori moved to NY after graduating from college in 1966, working at the Third World film studio with Jonas Mekas, Stan Vanderbeek
1. S No.1 (1967, 5min, digital)
2. Head Games (1967, 10min, digital)
3. No Game (1967, 17min, digital)
4. Salome's Children (1968, 7min, digital)
5. Between the Frame (1967, 10min, digital)
6. Great Society (1967, 17 min, digital)
Contact The Block Museum of Art for more information: (847) 491-4000 or email us at block-museum@northwestern.edu