ATG, Underground Culture, and Shinjuku Hirasawa Go, Meiji Gakuin
Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
6:00-8:00pm
ATG, Underground Culture, and Shinjuku
Hirasawa Go, Meiji Gakuin
Room 403 Kent Hall
Co-sponsored by the Donald Keene Center
Lecture Information:
Hirasawa Go is a lecturer at Meiji Gakuin. He is a film historian and film curator, who specializes in Japanese independent cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. His books include “underground Film Archives” (2001), “Wakamatsu Koji”(2006), “Cultural theory of 1968” (2008), and “Adachi Masao” (2012). This talk will explore ATG’s own roots at the Shinjuku Bunka Cinema and the importance of that exhibition space for a range of experimental films and performances, from 1961 onward. Beyond that, it will look at Shinjuku more broadly as the platform or stage for a range of experimental works, set or screened in that sector of Tokyo at that time.
Hirasawa Go is a lecturer at Meiji Gakuin. He is a film historian and film curator, who specializes in Japanese independent cinema of the 1960s and 1970s. His books include “underground Film Archives” (2001), “Wakamatsu Koji”(2006), “Cultural theory of 1968” (2008), and “Adachi Masao” (2012). This talk will explore ATG’s own roots at the Shinjuku Bunka Cinema and the importance of that exhibition space for a range of experimental films and performances, from 1961 onward. Beyond that, it will look at Shinjuku more broadly as the platform or stage for a range of experimental works, set or screened in that sector of Tokyo at that time.
