PROGRAM
Directly managed programs F/T label
Online Discussion: Intersecting Video-Performance 2
Yukiko Iioka (Cinematographer), Naoto Iina (Videographer/Director/Producer), Chika Kinoshita (Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University)
Moderators:
Kaku Nagashima/Chika Kawai (Tokyo Festival F/T Label Program Directors)
What do we mean by video adaptations of performances by actors and dancers?
The relationship between the performing arts and video/film involves more than documentary footage of historical performances. Since the 1970s and even since 2020, that relationship has continued to expand into areas including productions that incorporate video on stage, the “screen dance” genre of dance-centric short films, documentary films on the creators of theatre and dance, and “Eizo Theater” in which projected life-size human images work on the viewer’s perception to transform exhibition spaces into performance spaces. In this discussion, our guests address aspects of the multi-faceted relationship between performance and video/film including the creation of a video or film work based on performance, and performing for a video or film work, undertakings which differ from the making of a so-called movie or film.
Program Director’s comment
This year's F/T label offers a program of works designed to make visitors feel the presence of people again; that there are real flesh-and-blood people on the other side of the screen you look at every day, behind the scenes of manufacturing and logistics, and even in buildings that are being destroyed. This year’s Online Discussion will be held in two sessions with the same theme as last year. We invite experts working on the ground in different disciplines, engaging in practices and research from different standpoints, to exchange information and opinions. We believe we will see emerge from their discussion forms and meanings to activities, as well as an image of creators, which differ from the conventional models.
F/T Label Program Directors, Kaku Nagashima, Chika Kawai
Profile
Yukiko Iioka
Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1976. She specialized in film at the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. She directed the films “Oedipus Rex/Ku Na'uka” (2000) and “Hinosato” (2002). Her cinematography works include “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy” (2021/Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi), and “Haruhara San's Recorder” (2021/Directed by Kyoshi Sugita). She also engages in activities outside filming movies – for example, Iioka has been in charge of filming performances by Kakuya Ohashi and Dancers since the production “The World 2019”, and she also worked as a researcher on artist collective PortB’s “Tokyo Heterotopia” (site-specific theatre tour/smartphone app).
Naoto Iina
Videographer, director and producer. iina is the founder of Dance and Media Japan and International Dance Film Festival. Iina has been working on cross-genre works with video, dance and text. He is in charge of direction, composition, filming and editing of the online Butoh program "Re-Butoooh" (NPO Dance Archive Network).
Chika Kinoshita (film historian)
KINOSHITA Chika is Professor of Film Studies in the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. She received a PhD in Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago, and is the author of Mizoguchi Kenji: Aesthetics and Politics of the Film Medium (Tokyo: Hosei University Press, 2016). She has published widely on Japanese film history and international art cinema, with particular focus on gender, sexuality, and performance.
Schedule
Saturday, Nov. 12 – Sunday, Dec. 11
Language
Japanese
Ticket information
Free (Available to view on the Tokyo Festival YouTube channel during the viewing period only)
Staff credits
Video Recording/Editing: Hibiki Miyazawa (ALLOPOSIDAE LLC), Yui Takahashi
Coordinators: artsknot, Miyoto Okuyama
Organizer credits
Organizers
Toshima Mirai Cultural Foundation, Toshima City, Tokyo Festival Executive Committee [Toshima City, Toshima Mirai Cultural Foundation, Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture (Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre & Arts Council Tokyo), Tokyo Metropolitan Government]
Subsidy by
Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan in fiscal 2022
Supported by
Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan in fiscal 2022
Sponsored by
Asahi Group Japan, Ltd.
Inquiries
Tokyo Festival Executive Committee Office
050-1746-0996 (Weekdays 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.)