Kinema Club VII Conference

Kinema Club VII Conference

Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Film Director and Professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and Nakamura Hideyuki, Professor at Rikkyo University.

Friday, March 24, 2006 - 4:00pm to Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 10:30pm
Auditorium (Room 101), Henry R. Luce Hall See map
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 6511

The seventh edition of the Kinema Club conference in Japanese film and moving image studies will be held at Yale University from March 24 to 26, 2006. This session will be subtitled “Regimen, Revival and Recent Japanese Cinema” and will focus on recent trends in Japanese cinema, especially as they relate to government film policy and film education. The main guests will be Kurosawa Kiyoshi, film director and professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and Nakamura Hideyuki, professor at Rikkyo University. We will screen Kurosawa’s most recent horror film LOFT, and hold several discussions with the director. In a pre-event for the conference we will show another Kurosawa film, Serpent’s Path on March 23, and hold two workshops with the director. As a “post-event” on March 28 the Okinawan director Takamine Go will be presenting his film Untamagiru. There is no registration fee for the conference and the film screenings and workshops are open to the public without pre-registration.

4:00-6:00 PM: 2-hour workshop with Kurosawa Kiyoshi
6:00-7:00 PM: Opening reception for Kinema Club VII
7:00-9:00 PM: Keynote address by Nakamura Hideyuki “Ozu, or On the Gesture”

3/25 PANEL DISCUSSIONS:
9:45 AM -12:00 PM: Anime
Satomi Saito (University of Iowa): “Old and New in Digital Animation: Shinkai Makoto and Ideals of the Digital Utopia” Kumiko Sato (Earlham College): “Anime’s Reality and the Sense of Horror: The Threat of the Unreal after Digitalization” Dennis Washburn (Darthmouth Univeristy): “Learning to Translate AI-Bed”

1:00 -3:00 PM: Japanese Horror Cinema
Mitsuyo Wada Marciano (Carelton University): “J-Horror and the Transnational Circulation of Fear”
Myoungsook Park (University of Iowa): “Semantics of Horror: Contemporary ‘Japanese’ Horror Films, and Hollywood Remakes” Discussant: Kurosawa Kiyoshi

3:15-5:15 PM: Roundtable on Film Policy and Film Studies
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (New York University)
Aaron Gerow (Yale University)
Nakamura Hideyuki (St. Andrew’s University)

7:00-10:00 PM: Screening of Loft (2006)
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street
Discussion with Kurosawa Kiyoshi following screening

3/26 PANEL DISCUSSIONS:
10:00 AM -12:30 PM: Issues of Translation
Abé Mark Nornes (University of Michigan): “Dangerous Liaisons: The Traders and Traitors in Our Midst”
Michael Raine (UCLA): “Helix Movement and Excessive Repetition-Re-setting Taiyozoku in the 1960s Hong Kong”
Discussant: Dudley Andrew (Yale University)

12:30-2:00PM: Concluding Discussion

4:00-5:00PM: Screening of Shashingwa (Dear Photograph, 15 min., 16mm, 1973)
Room B-21, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street Discussion with Kurosawa Kiyoshi following screening

7:30-10:30 PM: Screening of Untamagiru (1989)
Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street
Discussion with director Takamine Go following screening


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