Japanese Expanded Cinema Revisited
Tuesday, August 15 t o Sunday, O ctober 15, 2 017
About
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum is pleased to announce the exhibition “Japanese
Expanded Cinema Revisited”.
Centered around the museum’s collection, this exhibition will concentrate on works that
employ methods or forms other than conventional movie theater projection to consider
the ‘Expanded Cinema’ concept that was developed from the mid-sixties onwards by
artists and experimental filmmakers based largely in Europe and the U.S.A. Japan was
quick to carry out experiments in ‘Expanded Cinema’ from around the 1960s, and we will
focus on Japanese film history to reconsider its uniqueness and foresight. The results of
this trend are now familiar to us all through multi-projection, loop projection and live
performances, but it also responded to the intermedia or art and technology that
flourished during the same period, rediscovering the diversity that always existed in film.
More than fifty years have now passed since the birth of this movement and we hope
that by re-exploring ‘Expanded Cinema’ we will be able to trace the transition and
contemporariness of imagery from the earliest times up to the present day.
Artists/ Works (13 works, 110 related materials)
Matsumoto Toshio
For the Damaged Right Eye
1968 Single-channel video, transferred from three 16mm color films,
B＆W, part colour, sound, 13 min. Music: Akiyama Kuniharu
Shūzō Azuchi Gulliver
Watch
1966-67 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film, B&W, silent
Iimura Takahiko
Dead Movie
1964 Film installation, 16mm film, B&W, silent
Collection of the artist
Iimura Takahiko
A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput
1964 / 1966 Double projection, 16mm film, B&W, sound, 12 min.
Collection of the artist
Shūzō Azuchi Gulliver
Cinematic Illumination
1968-69 Intermedia work
1440 slide films, 18 slide projectors, B&W, colour, sound (only for this exhibition)
Music supervision: Tachikawa Naoki
Ōe Masanori
Loop Siki No.1 / No.2 / No.3
1966 Film installation, 16mm film, B＆W, sound, loop
Collection of the artist
Manabe Hiroshi
Marine Snow
1960 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film, B&W, sound, 22 min.
Collection of The Museum of Art, EHIME
Jōnouchi Motoharu
Document 6.15
1961 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film, B&W, silent, 18 min.
Jōnouchi Motoharu
Shinjuku Station
1974 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film, B&W, sound, 16 min.
Sasaki Michiko
To Die Sometime
1974 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film, B&W, sound, 30 min.
Collection of the artist
Matsumoto Toshio
Space Projection Ako
1970 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film, colour, sound, 15 min.
Music: Yuasa Jōji
Kanesaka Kenji
Hopscotch
1967 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film, B&W, sound, 10 min.
Collection of the Harvard Film Archive
Jud Yalkut
EXPO ’67 (excerpt from ‘METAMEDIA’)
1967 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film, colour, sound, 4 min.
Collection of Anthology Film Archives
Thanks to the Estate of Jud Yalkut
For more detail, please see “List of Works/ Related Materials.”
All works not otherwise designated are from Tokyo Photographic Art Museum.
Works
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3 4
5 6 7
10 11
12 13
Related Materials.
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1 Matsumoto Toshio For the Damaged Right Eye 1968 Single-channel video, transferred from three 16mm color
films, B＆W, part colour, sound, 13 min. Music: Akiyama Kuniharu
2 Matsumoto Toshio Space Projection Ako 1970 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film, colour, sound,
15 min. Music: Yuasa Jōji
3 Shūzō Azuchi Gulliver Cinematic Illumination 1968-69 Intermedia work 1440 slide films, 18 slide projectors, B&W,
colour, sound (only for this exhibition) Music supervision: Tachikawa Naoki
4 Shūzō Azuchi Gulliver Watch 1966-67 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film, B&W, silent
5 Iimura Takahiko A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput 1964/1966 Double projection, 16mm film, B&W, sound,
12 min. Collection of the artist
6 Iimura Takahiko Dead Movie 1964 Film installation, 16mm film, B&W, silent Collection of the artist
7 Ōe Masanori Loop Siki No.1 / No.2 / No.3 1966 Film installation, 16mm film, B＆W, sound, loop Collection of the
artist
8 Manabe Hiroshi Marine Snow 1960 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film, B&W, sound, 22 min.
Collection of The Museum of Art, EHIME
9 Jōnouchi Motoharu Document 6.15 1961 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film, B&W, silent, 18 min.
10 Jōnouchi Motoharu Shinjuku Station 1974 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film, B&W, sound, 16
min.
11 Sasaki Michiko To Die Sometime 1974 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film, B&W, sound, 30 min.
Collection of the artist
12 Kanesaka Kenji Hopscotch 1967 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film, B&W, sound, 10 min.
Collection of the Harvard Film Archive
13 Jud Yalkut EXPO ’67 (excerpt from ‘METAMEDIA’) 1967 Single-channel video, transferred from a 16mm film,
colour, sound, 4 min. Collection of Anthology Film Archives Thanks to the Estate of Jud Yalkut
14 Leaflet for ‘Underground Cinema’ (Design: Hosoya Gan) Collection of SŌGETSU FOUNDATION (Held by Keio
University Art Center) 1966
15 Poster for ‘EXPOSE 1968: Henshin Aruiwa Gendaigeijutsu no Kareinaru Bouken’ (Design: Awazu Kiyoshi)
Collection of SŌGETSU FOUNDATION (Held by Keio University Art Center) 1968
16 Photo of Gewaltopia Yokokuhen (Gewaltopia Trailer) Photo: Sasaki Michiko Collection of the artist 1969
17 Bulletin of ‘MAC・J, No.2’ 1965 Illustration: Adachi Masao Private Collection
18 Leaflet for ‘A Week for Muse’ Private Collection 1965
19 Newsreel Japan, Vol.1 No.1 1969 Private collection
Exhibition catalogue
Essays:
Japanese Expanded Cinema Revisited Tasaka Hiroko
Politics, the Street, and the Expansion into Everyday Life Hirasawa Gō
Explorers of Boundaries: 1960-70s Expanded Cinema in Japan Julian Ross
Published by:
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
¥2,052
Events
Artist Talks (in Japanese)
Iimura Takahiko
August. 19 (Sat) 14:00-15:30
Ōe Masanori
August. 20 (Sun) 14:00-15:30
Shūzō Azuchi Gulliver
August. 26 (Sat) 14:00-15:30
Gallery Talks (in Japanese)
Aug. 25, Sep. 8, Sep. 22, Oct. 13 from 4:00 pm
This exhibition is
Organized by Tokyo Metropolitan Government / Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Sponsored by Toppan Printing Inc.
Venue: B1 Floor Gallery, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Museum Hours: 10:00-18:00（10:00 – 20:00 on Thursday and Friday）From July 20 –
August 25, open until 21:00 on Thursdays and Fridays. ※Last entry 30 minutes before closing
Closed : Monday （if Monday is a national holiday or a substitute holiday, it is the next day）
Admission ： Adult ¥ 600 (¥480) Students ¥500 (¥400) Junior ＆ senior high school
students, people aged 65 or over: ¥400 (¥320) ※（ ）for group over 20 people
For Further Information
Curator Tasaka Hiroko [Link]@[Link]
Endo Miyuki [Link]@[Link]
Press Kushiro Akiko, Hirasawa Ayano, Maehara Takako
press-info@[Link]
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
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