Just a quick note, but I will be traveling to Ghent in Belgium this week to participate in Courtisane Festival 2019. This year’s film festival will feature the sidebar “Artist in Focus: Tsuchimoto Noriaki” and I have been invited to give a talk on Tsuchimoto and the background to his films. The Festival will show seven of Tsuchimoto’s works:
- An Engineer’s Assistant
- On the Road
- Exchange Student Chua Swee-Lin
- Prehistory of the Partisans
- Minamata: The Victims and Their World
- The Shiranui Sea
- Umitori—The Stolen Sea at the Shimokita Peninsula
My talk will be on Saturday, April 6, at 15:00 in the Paddenhoek. The page on the retrospective is here.
In addition to talking about Tsuchimoto, Minamata, Iwanami, and his approach to documentary, using several clips from his films, I will introduce the Tsuchimoto Collection, his personal papers that have been donated to Yale. Not just their contents, but the Collection itself I think speaks to important aspects of his character and approach to cinema.
If you are in Belgium, come and say hello. If not, stay tuned for future announcements about Tsuchimoto related events and developments.
UPDATE: I posted about the catalog for the Tsuchimoto and Ogawa Shinsuke retros being made available on line. Check it out here.