‘Engawa’ film programme
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Location
Cinemateca Portuguesa – Cinema MuseumRua Barata Salgueiro 39, 1269-059 Lisbon
Studio Centro de Arte Moderna GulbenkianThe full programme will be released soon.
Existing between the cinema screen, the museum space and elsewhere, artists and filmmakers in Japan are beginning to develop a shared cinematic language. This proves they don’t exist in separate worlds, despite the differences in the ways in which the works are produced, circulate, and received by audiences.
Featuring mostly film and video works from the past decade, this programme highlights two impulses and preoccupations: memory and identity.
As Japanese artists have begun to interrogate their nation’s relationship with history in invigorating ways, the selective nature of Japan’s collective memory and rigid ideas pertaining belonging and national identity have undergone critical examination through audiovisual means.
Engawa – A Season of Contemporary Art from Japan
‘Engawa’ is a programming that brings to Lisbon a set of creators from Japan and the Japanese diaspora, many of them for the first time in Portugal. More info
Biographies
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Julian Ross
Julian Ross is a British-Japanese researcher, curator and writer. He is co-programmer of Doc Fortnight at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), of the 69th Flaherty Seminar, and programme advisor at IDFA. His curatorial work has been presented at Tate Modern, Eye Filmmuseum, Harvard Film Archive and British Film Institute. He is Assistant Professor at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, and an editorial board member of Collaborative Cataloging Japan, a non-profit organisation dedicated to preserving the legacy of Japanese experimental moving image.
Credits
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Yu Araki & Daniel Jacoby, 'Mountain Plain Mountain', 2018. Image courtesy of the artists and MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo; Maisterravalbuena, Madrid; Ciaccia Levi, Paris; Crisis, Lima.
Partnership
The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation reserves the right to collect and keep records of images, sounds and voice for the diffusion and preservation of the memory of its cultural and artistic activity. For further information, please contact us through the Information Request form.