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S/N
Sat 09.06 / 20:30 / Filmhuis Den Haag
Sun 10.06 / 19:00 / Lantaren-Venster / Rotterdam
Sun 17.06 / 14:00 / t'Hoogt / Utrecht
All screenings will be introduced by Dr. Wim LUNSING, author of 'Beyond Common Sense: Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Japan'.
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S/N is de registratie van een optreden van DUMB TYPE, Japan's meest controversiële artiestencollectief geleid door FURUHASHI Teiji, die in 1995 ten gevolge van AIDS overleden is. S/N was FURUHASHI's laatste optreden. Zonder te vervallen in exotisch Japonisme, wordt in S/N muziek, dans en talkshow elementen verweeft met videobeelden. Naast de voortreffelijke uitvoeringen komen in S/N in Japan moeilijk bespreekbare thema's zoals homoseksualiteit, HIV/AIDS en rassendiscriminatie door de HIV epidemie aan bod. Er is moed en vindingrijkheid voor nodig om werk zoals dit op te zetten in Japan, waar men, ondanks het moderne imago dat Japan heeft, homoseksualiteit liever negeert dan het te accepteren.
S/N is a documentary of the performances done by DUMB TYPE, Japan's most controversial collective of artists. Lead by FURUHASHI Teiji, S/N was the last performance piece before his death from AIDS in 1995. The work juxtaposed music, dance, talk show and video imageries, without resorting to an exotic Japonism. S/N not only contains excellent performances, but sheds light on the issues surrounding homosexuality, HIV/AIDS, and racial discrimination through the HIV epidemic. Initiation of such work in Japan, where homosexuality is constantly ignored despite its modern high-tech society, is courageous and innovative. And that is what makes this documentary very special and worthy of attention.
International première
Japan 2005, DV, 85 Min, colour, English subtitles
Director & Script: DUMB TYPE
Distribution: DUMB TYPE
Founded in 1984, the artist collective DUMB TYPE is based in Kyoto, Japan. Members are trained in varied disciplines, including visual arts, architecture, music composition and computer programming. Their work ranges across such diverse media as art exhibitions, performances, audiovisuals and publications. DUMB TYPE is known for portraying a dark, cynical, and humorous world in which technology is a way of life--if not necessarily a welcome one. While based in Kyoto, Japan's ancient capital, DUMB TYPE is oriented more to the global than the local, the contemporary over the traditional. Notable in a country plagued by political apathy, the group has played the unpopular role of AIDS activist, organizing symposiums and other events, motivated in part by the fact that Furuhashi died of AIDS in 1995.
www.dumbtype.com
De vertoning van S/N is mogelijk gemaakt in samenwerking met TIL&GFF [www.tokyo-lgff.org] (Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival).
The screening of S/N is was made possible the collaboration of Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival [www.tokyo-lgff.org] and CAMERA JAPAN.
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Boy's Choir
Sun 10.06 / 21:00 / Lantaren-Venster / Rotterdam
Sun 17.06 / 21:30 / t'Hoogt / Utrecht
All screenings will be introduced by Dr. Wim LUNSING, author of 'Beyond Common Sense: Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Japan'.
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Eind jaren '60, werd een hele generatie van Japanse studenten in de droom van een nieuwe samenleving meegesleept. Sommigen wachtten vol verwachting af wanneer het tij van de wereldwijde revolutie Japan zou bereiken, terwijl anderen rellen schopten en bommen plaatsten. Gesitueerd aan het eind van een tijdperk van hoop, vertelt BOY'S CHOIR het verhaal over twee jonge mannen die streven naar vertrouwen in een wereld die niet meer vol is dromen van een betere toekomst. BOY'S CHOIR speelt zich af in een militaristisch weeshuis voor jongens, laat heel mooi zien hoe de vriendschap tussen de androgene Yasuo en de sociaal onvaardige stotterende Michio zich ontwikkeld tijdens hun pubertijd. Hoewel de film nergens expliciet ingaat op homoseksualiteit, heeft het wel degelijk een homo-erotische ondertoon.
In the late sixties, a whole generation of Japanese students were swept into the dream of a new society. Some waited expectantly for the tide of worldwide revolution to reach Japan, while others instigated riots and bombings.
Taking place at the end of an era of hope, BOY'S CHOIR is the story of two young men striving for confidence in a world no longer given to dreams of a better future. Set in an all boy's militaristic orphanage, BOY'S CHOIR never turns explicitly gay, yet slowly and beautifully unfolds the friendship between the androgynous Yasuo and the stuttering, socially-inept Michio in their puberty with a homoerotic undercurrent.
DOKURITSU SHONEN GASSHOUDAN, Dutch première
Japan 2000, 35 mm, 130 Min, colour, English subtitles
Director: OGATA Akira
Script: AOKI Kenji
Producer: SENTO Takenori
Editor: KAKESU Shuichi
Music: IKEBE Shinichiro
Distribution: Media Luna
Born in 1959, OGATA Akira met ISHII Sogo at Fukuoka University and worked as an assistant director on ISHII's early films. OGATA further became assistant director fo people like OMORI Kazuki and TAKAHASHI Banmei and has directed numerous TV commercials, dramas, documentaries and music videos before shooting his first feature film 'Boy's Choir'.
Filmography:
2005: The Milkwoman (itsuka dokusho suruhi)
2000: Boy's choir (dokuritsu shonen gasshoudan)
Yuda (Secret Journey)
Sun 17.06 / 16:00 / t'Hoogt / Utrecht
The screening will be introduced by Dr. Wim LUNSING, author of 'Beyond Common Sense: Sexuality and Gender in Contemporary Japan'.
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Man en Man. Vrouw en Vrouw. Het mysterie van YUDA.
Yuda is verdwenen, maar het mysterie van zijn verdwijning blijft...
Terwijl ik een documentaire aan het maken was zag ik YUDA midden in Tokyo. Gedreven door mijn fascinatie voor YUDA, begon ik hem te volgen, maar op een dag verdween hij met mijn videocamera. Een paar maanden later kwam een dame genaamd Michi Nakamura naar mijn kantoor. Ze bracht de schouderband van de camera die YUDA gestolen had en zei dat ze hier kwam omdat mijn adres erop stond. Ik vroeg naar YUDA en ze zei dat hij dood was. Meteen nadat ze mijn kantoor verliet, werd ze aangereden door een auto. Ik zocht haar op in het ziekenhuis en ze begon me het mysterieuze verhaal van haar en Yuda te vertellen.
Man and Man. Woman and Woman. A Mystery of Yuda.
Yuda is gone. But the mystery of his disappearance remains...
While shooting a documentary video, I saw a guy named YUDA in the middle of Tokyo. I was curious about YUDA and begun following him around, but one day he disappeared with my video camera. A couple months later, a lady named Michi Nakamura came to my office. She had the strap of my video camera that YUDA stole from me, and said she saw the address that was on the strap, so she came here. I asked her about YUDA, and she told me that he was dead. Right after she left my office, she was hit by a car, I visited her in hospital and she begins to tell me about the mysterious story of her and Yuda.
Dutch première
Japan 2004, DVD, 113 Min, colour, English subtitles
Director: ZEZE Takahisa
Script: ZEZE Takahisa & SATO Aki
Producer: HORIKOSHI Kenzo & OHNO Atsuko
Editor: IMAI Toshihiro
Music: YASUKAWA Goro
Distribution: Eleven Arts
ZEZE Takahisa has been making films since the late eighties as an up and coming director of the new wave pink eiga. Lately he also moved on to directing more mainstream movies while never forgetting his past. He is known not to shun any controversial topics in his films such as racism or social inequality.
Filmography (selection):
2003: Moon Child
2001: Tokyo X Erotica
2000: Hysteric
1997: Kokkuri-san