Japanese culture and life in Berlin
Love’s Whirlpool A dating evening for four couples, three beds and voyeurs European premiere TEXT / DIRECTION Daisuke Miura [Tokyo] With Ryotaro Yonemura, Yusuke Furusawa, Ryo Iwase, Hideaki Washio, Hiroyuki Aoki, Katsuyuki Iizuka, Runa Endo, Megumi Nitta, Yoshiko Miyajima, Juri Takagi STAGE MANAGER Kiyonaga Matsushita STAGE Toshie Tanaka LIGHT Takashi Ito SOUND Yoshihiro Nakamura FILM […]
Read MoreBy Yoske Nishiumi I am so excited to help organizing an opening party of Kyohei Sakaguchi’s exhitbition at Haus Der Berliner Festspiele. It is a project of Sakaguchi to build a house for Marino Formenti who will play piano and live inside of this space for three weeks. The house is built around a big […]
Read MoreA girl unable to speak, a man unable to write a poem, a crisis line manager unable to help might find in the gloomiest of all places what they have been longing for – Hope and courage. Official site: http://www.snowchildthemovie.com
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Read MoreIn this, Sono’s evocatively but misleadingly titled “Guilty of Romance” resembles Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut,” which also treated sexual desire as dark, mysterious and dangerous, in a setting placeless and timeless. The film begins, though, as a “Silence of the Lambs” take-off. Called from an assignation with her lover, Detective Yoshida (Miki Mizuno) investigates […]
Read MoreAmidst the in-between — Documentary films from Japan [PDF] Screening and conversation – Eduardo Thomas with Günter Nitschke OV, English subtitles Eduardo Thomas will present a fragment of his ongoing research into the Japanese concept of “ma” (a structuring absence), screening short films by Matsumoto Toshio and Ito Takashi and a feature film by Kawase Naomi. In conversation with Günter […]
Read MoreHamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin Sat 8 October 2011 – Sun 1 January 2012 In 1984, Joseph Beuys spent eight days in Japan on the occasion of a show of his work, held at the Seibu Museum in Tokyo. He was accompanied by a Japanese camera crew that not only filmed him […]
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