Eric Baudelaire, L’Anabase de May et Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi et 27 Années sans Images (The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images), 2011; Single-channel HD video, Super 8 transferred to digital video, color, sound; 01:06:00 minutes. Courtesy the artist, KADIST Collection.
Overview
For the first FEATURING screening at Tinworks at Rialto, curator Vic Brooks is joined by KADIST’s Americas Director, Joseph del Pesco, for a conversation about what the 120-year-old format of the feature film, along with the architecture, rituals, and shared experience of cinema, can still offer contemporary artists. Drawing on the questions at the heart of the series, they will discuss what happens when artists move between the museum and the film industry, how methods developed through experimental moving-image practice translate to feature scale, and what new possibilities—and contradictions—emerge around genre, production, distribution, economics, and spectatorship.
The conversation is followed by a screening of Eric Baudelaire’s award-winning first feature, which traces a path between Japanese revolutionary politics, cinema, and exile.
Program Schedule
3PM
KADIST Collection Shorts, 45 mins
Conversation between Vic Brooks and Joseph del Pesco, 30 mins
4:30PM
Eric Baudelaire, L’Anabase de May et Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi et 27 Années sans Images (The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images) (2011), 66 mins
In a society saturated by images, Eric Baudelaire is interested in political events that have not found their representation. For the film The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years without Images, Baudelaire conducted research on 1970s Japanese cinema and more specifically on Wakamatsu and Masao Adachi’s filmography. In this film, the 30 year-long journey of the Japanese Red Army is told by two of its protagonists.
