Free Tuesday Program

Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Postwar Japanese Films

Date + Time

Tuesday, December 01, 2009
noon

Location

Phyllis Wattis Theater

Overview

Navel and A-Bomb (Heso to genbaku), Eikoh Hosoe, 1960, 12 mins., DVD
Shinjuku, 1973, 25 pm, Daido Moriyama, 17 mins., DVD
Me holding a gun: For Andy Warhol, Yasumasa Morimura, 1998, 3 mins., DVD
Seasons of Passion / A Requiem: Mishima, Yasumasa Morimura, 2006, DVD

This program of short films offers a rare opportunity to view experimental Japanese films and videos created since 1960. Presented in conjunction with The Provoke Era: Postwar Japanese Photography, the films show the complicated atmosphere and dramatic sociocultural transformations that resulted from Japan's defeat in World War II and the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Admission + Ticketing

Museum and program admission are free.

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