‘Engawa’ film programme

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Offering a glimpse into the exhilarating world of Japanese artists’ moving image, this 'Engawa' film programme seeks to stake a place for its existence in Japanese contemporary art and cinema.

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


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Credits

Main image

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.

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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.

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