- Description:
- DVD - Region 1. viewing copy. 2 videodiscs of 2.
color and b/w.
sound.
- Notes:
- In EXPLODED STATES: WAR, POLITICS, AND NATIONAL IDENTITY, the importance of political and social critique for postwar Japanese experimentation is made apparent. Here, Japanese experimental film and video comes to its closest intersection with experimental theater and avant-garde performance. The films draw from and contribute to “happenings” staged by avant-gardists in the Hi Red Center group, an intercontinental Fluxus movement, and Hijikata Tatsumi’s butoh choreography. Viewed together, these works exhibit a delightful irony and playful insubordination to state, collective, and perspectival authority. Program notes and curation by Jonathan M. Hall and Michelle Puetz.
Titles
+ God Bless America
- Director:
- Takamine Tadasu
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 2002
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ X (Batsu)
- Director:
- Tanikawa Shuntaro; Takemitsu Toru
- Running Time:
- Short. 15 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1960
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Shadow
- Director:
- Hayashi, Seiichi
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1969
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Yamakagashi
- Director:
- Aihara, Nobuhiro
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1972
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Navel And A-Bomb
- Director:
- Hosoe, Eiko
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- silent - no soundtrack
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1960
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ White Hole
- Director:
- Matsumoto Toshio
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1976
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Switchback
- Director:
- Kawanaka, Nobuhiro
- Running Time:
- Short. 9 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1976
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ 3725
- Director:
- Aoki, Tatsu
- Running Time:
- Short. 11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1981
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Yoshikei
- Director:
- Tanaami Keiichi
- Running Time:
- Short. 12 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1979
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
+ Emperor Tomato Ketchup
- Director:
- Terayama Shuji
- Running Time:
- Short. 25 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Japan
- Year:
- 1970
- Genre:
- Experimental / Avant Garde
