Beginning February 18th to March 1st, the Japan Society will be screening selected works from the Art Theater Guild (ATG).
The following is from the official website:
Founded in 1961 as a distributor of European art films in Japan, the Art Theater Guild (ATG) began co-producing independent films in 1967, and quickly established itself as the leading platform for highly experimental and innovative film. For three decades, ATG played a decisive role in the development of art-house films in Japan, often dealing with the most controversial subjects from incest, anarchism, and gay culture to capital punishment. Although many filmmakers such as Nagisa Oshima, Yoshishige Yoshida and Shuji Terayama gained international recognition through their films made in cooperation with ATG, the Art Theatre Guild is still little known outside of Japan. This 12-film series curated by Roland Domenig and Go Hirasawa focuses on the first decade of ATG and on the Shinjuku Bunka, ATG's flagship theater, which formed a unique intersection of filmmakers and artists of all kind in Shinjuku, the center of Japan’s vibrant counterculture.
FEATURED FILMS:
Pitfall (Otoshiana, Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1962)
Silence Has No Wings (Tobenai chinmoku, Kazuo Kuroki, 1966)
A Man Vanishes (Ningen johatsu, Shohei Imamura, 1967)
Crazy Love (Kureiji rabu, Michio Okabe, 1968)
Death by Hanging (Koshikei, Nagisa Oshima, 1968)
The Inferno of First Love (Hatsukoi jigokuhen, Susumu Hani, 1968)
Double Suicide (Shinju ten no Amijima, Masahiro Shinoda, 1969)
Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no soretsu, Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)
Eros plus Massacre (Erosu + gyakusatsu, Kiju Yoshida, 1970)
This Transient Life (Mujo, Akio Jissoji, 1970)
Throw Away Your Books, Let's Go into the Street (Sho wo suteyo machi e deyo, Shuji Terayama,1971, pictured)
Ecstasy of the Angels (Tenshi no kokotsu, Koji Wakamatsu, 1972)
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