Kazuo Ohno was a Japanese dancer who became a guru and inspirational figure in the dance form known as Butoh, of which he was the co-founder. In 1969, he also starred in his first film, “A portrait of Mr O”, during a period in which he had retired from public performance, and just before he began touring the world as a solo dancer with his celebrated work “Admiring La Argentina”.
” Portrait of Mr O” is screening at Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film Festival
Ohno’s effort was to “resist fixity”, a pursuit that is quite evident in the film, with the grotesqueness and an overall absurdity in terms of characters and movements being the rule here. In that fashion, the movie begins with a ragtag, deformed individual, moving in a setting that could be described as dystopian, towards a well, from which he helps another similar individual get out from. A bit later,...
” Portrait of Mr O” is screening at Japanese Avant-Garde and Experimental Film Festival
Ohno’s effort was to “resist fixity”, a pursuit that is quite evident in the film, with the grotesqueness and an overall absurdity in terms of characters and movements being the rule here. In that fashion, the movie begins with a ragtag, deformed individual, moving in a setting that could be described as dystopian, towards a well, from which he helps another similar individual get out from. A bit later,...
- 9/18/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival announces full programme for Jaeff 2021: Bodies in advance of ticket sales on 22 July. Jaeff 2021: Bodies will be held at The Barbican from 16-19th September, and online from 20th-30th September.
Jaeff 2021: Bodies explores how we interact with other beings, spaces around us, and how expressions of the unutterable become vital means of communication and connection.
This third edition of the Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival considers the body and sensation, and features work from directors Kon Ichikawa, Toshio Matsumoto, Susumu Hani, Chiaki Nagano, Takahiko Iimura, Tatsumi Kumashiro, Shuji Terayama and more.
In a time where words, facts and logic are increasingly ineffectual, powerless and absurd, this year’s programme attempts to make sense of the nonsensical. Finding that sometimes, the most powerful form of expression is often what we feel, rather than what we can say, write, or even think.
Jaeff 2021: Bodies explores how we interact with other beings, spaces around us, and how expressions of the unutterable become vital means of communication and connection.
This third edition of the Japanese Avant-garde and Experimental Film Festival considers the body and sensation, and features work from directors Kon Ichikawa, Toshio Matsumoto, Susumu Hani, Chiaki Nagano, Takahiko Iimura, Tatsumi Kumashiro, Shuji Terayama and more.
In a time where words, facts and logic are increasingly ineffectual, powerless and absurd, this year’s programme attempts to make sense of the nonsensical. Finding that sometimes, the most powerful form of expression is often what we feel, rather than what we can say, write, or even think.
- 7/19/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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