Dear FrameWorks subscribers, Following my previous film workshop announcement, we’re very happy to announce the full lineup for the 9th edition of JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film, North America’s largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema, running July 9-19, 2015 at Japan Society in New York. This year’s expanded festival presents a diverse lineup of nearly 30 features never before seen in New York, plus dozens of new shorts, 15 special guests, including newly established programming highlight sections on documentary, new classics, and of particular interest for subscribers, the Experimental Spotlight program:
Experimental Spotlight: Mono No Aware x [+] (Plus) http://www.japansociety.org/event/mono-no-aware-x-%5B%5D-plus<http://www.japansociety.org/event/mono-no-aware-x-[]-plus> The festival’s Opening Film is the North American Premiere of HIBI ROCK: Puke Afro and the Pop Star directed by Yu Irie, who will also join to present the North American Premiere of JOKER GAME. The Centerpiece Presentation features the North American Premieres of Asleep and 100 Yen Love, joined by star Sakura Ando, recipient of the CUT ABOVE Award for Outstanding Performance in Film. JAPAN CUTS 2015’s Closing Film is the independent jidaigeki Sanchu Uprising: Voices at Dawn in its International Premiere, presented by director Juichiro Yamasaki. Additional highlights include special guest appearances by Haruhiko Arai (This Country’s Sky, Undulant Fever), Takeshi Fukunaga and Donari Braxton (Out of My Hand), Youki Kudoh (This Country’s Sky), Hisako Matsui (What Are You Afraid Of?), Yuki Tanada (Round Trip Heart), Masashi Yamamoto (The Voice of Water), and special curatorial sections Documentary Focus (with looks back on the Sanrizuka struggle and history of feminism), Classics: Rediscoveries & Restorations (presenting new restorations of Oshima and Tezuka Animerama), as well as Experimental Spotlight (bringing together the creative networks of New York’s Mono No Aware and Tokyo’s [+]). Please browse the full selection via our website (www.japansociety.org/japancuts<http://www.japansociety.org/japancuts>). Hope to see you for the festival’s screenings and parties! Spread the word with your friends and colleagues who may be interested in joining in or covering JAPAN CUTS from afar. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me and the Japan Society Film team with any questions. Best regards, Joel Joel Neville Anderson PhD Student, Visual and Cultural Studies University of Rochester 978.394.3292 www.joelnevilleanderson.com<http://www.joelnevilleanderson.com> Upcoming programming: JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film (July 9-19, 2015) www.japansociety.org/japancuts<http://www.japansociety.org/japancuts> On May 20, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Joel Neville Anderson <jande...@ur.rochester.edu<mailto:jande...@ur.rochester.edu>> wrote: Dear FrameWorks subscribers, In advance of revealing the full lineup for the ninth edition of JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film (July 9-19, 2015), the programming team is happy to announce that JAPAN CUTS 2015 will have a strong experimental/avant-garde cinema component, including a partnership with the wonderful folks at Mono No Aware (http://mononoawarefilm.com<http://mononoawarefilm.com/>) who will hold a 16mm direct filmmaking workshop at Japan Society on June 21. Participants will create their own piece of 16mm cinema which will then be projected as part of the Experimental Spotlight program during JAPAN CUTS (http://www.japansociety.org/japancuts). Select workshop film print material is donated by Prof. Joanne Bernardi’s Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in Visual and Material Culture, University of Rochester (http://humanities.lib.rochester.edu/rej). Please see the following link for details and registration information (a very limited number of spots available): http://www.japansociety.org/event/japan-cuts-2015-film-workshop Please share with any NYC-local friends and colleagues who may be interested in joining! Best regards, Joel Joel Neville Anderson PhD Student, Visual and Cultural Studies University of Rochester 978.394.3292 www.joelnevilleanderson.com<http://www.joelnevilleanderson.com/> Upcoming programming: JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film (July 9-19, 2015) www.japansociety.org/japancuts<http://www.japansociety.org/japancuts>
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