Nottingham Contemporary: The Films of Motoharu Jonouchi

Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan (17min)
WOLS (22min)
Shinjuku Station (15min)
Gewaltopia Trailer (15min)

Motoharu Jonouchi was one of the leaders of the Nihon University Film Studies Club and the legendary VAN Film Research Centre where artists enacted cross-disciplinary collaborations to explore the art of film. Jonouchi, also the assistant director on Hiroshi Teshigahara's feature-debut Pitfall, picked up his camera to record artistic events, such as 'happening' art by Hi-Red Centre in Hi-Red Centre Shelter Plan (1964) and butoh dance in Hijikata Tatsumi (1967), as well as socio-political protests in Mass Collective Bargaining at Nihon University (1968) and the emergence of drug experimentation in Document LSD (1962). Yet what was most remarkable about Jonouchi was his ability to integrate his personal vision into his documentation, creating a concoction of personal and collective, imaginary and tangible spaces.

The films will be introduced by Julian Ross, PhD candidate in Japanese cinema at the University of Leeds.

This screening is supported by Zipangu Fest and programmed in association with Annexinema, and will be held in The Space, Nottingham Contemporary. The event will be free to attend, on Wednesday 19 January, 7pm - 9pm. The venue is Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham NG1 2GB. Contact them on 0115 948 9750, or visit their website (http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org). To book seats, click here.