BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:events.uid.4305@www.discovernikkei.org DTSTART:20130712T000000Z DTEND:20130712T000000Z DESCRIPTION:Jeremy Isao Speier curates films entirely from online open sour ce&nbsp\;on YouTube. These films are made by early Japanese&nbsp\;filmmake rs that pioneered an experimental approach that was often avant-gardist in stance. Featured directors&nbsp\;include Toshio Matsumoto known for his W arholian 60s happening\, counter cinema and experimental&nbsp\;film work w ho heavily influenced Stanley Kubrick&rsquo\;s A Clockwork Orange. Other e xperimental and conceptual works featured in the film set are by Teinosuke &nbsp\;Kinugasa\, Yasuzo Masumura\, Shuji Terayama\, Iimura Takahiko (w/Jo hn Cage)\, Toshiro Mifune\, and&nbsp\;John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven after Seven Samurai by Kurosawa). Counter Cinema acts as a&nbsp\;counterpo int to Hollywood and genre films following its own history and trajectory of counter-tradition&nbsp\;and experimental practices of filmmaking.\n DTSTAMP:20240423T061914Z SUMMARY:Japanese Avant-Garde Counter Cinema URL:/en/events/2013/07/12/japanese-avant-garde-counter-cinema/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR