RITUALS IN THE AVANT-GARDE: FILM EXPERIMENTS IN 1960-70s JAPAN
February 20 – February 26
$10 General Admission
$8 Essential Cinema (free for members)
$8 Students, seniors, and children (12 & under)
$6 AFA Members

Tickets are available at Anthology's box office on the day of the show only. The box office opens 30 minutes before the first show of the day. There are no advance ticket sales. Reservations are available to Anthology members only.

This series brings together a wide scope of artistic activity that emerged from the outer limits of film expression in the most politically fervent period of Japan’s recent history. The program navigates rarely screened works from the 1960s and early 1970s that span genres including documentary, dance film, animation, softcore pink, and queer cinema. What ties these seemingly disparate films together are their commitment to radical expression, which came to redefine what constituted avant-garde output. The program has been designed to coincide and resonate with the Museum of Modern Art’s ‘Tokyo 1955-1970’ exhibition and ‘Art Theater Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema 1962-1984’ film series.

Curated by Go Hirasawa and Julian Ross, and co-organized by the Japan Foundation.

Very special thanks to Katsu Kanai, Yoshihiro Kato, Henrikku Morisaki, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Michio Okabe, Akira Uno and Studio Aquirax, Tadanori Yokoo, Adachi Masao Screening Committee, The Film School of Tokyo, Film-Makers’ Coop, Fukuoka City Public Library, Keio University Art Centre, Kokuei, Nippon Connection, Ohno Kazuo Dance Studio, Siglo, Stans Company, Joshua Siegel (MoMA), Roland Domenig (University of Vienna), Haden Guest (Harvard Film Archive), Akihiro Suzuki (S.I.G.), Ryoko Obayashi and Takehito Moriizumi (PSG).

Go Hirasawa and Julian Ross will be present during the opening weekend.

Upcoming Screenings
Follow the links for more information about each screening.

• Katsu Kanai
  GOOD-BYE
  February 22 at 9:15 PM
• Shinsuke Ogawa
  SANRIZUKA: HETA VILLAGE
  February 23 at 6:00 PM
• Yoshihiro Kato
  THE WHITE HARE OF INABA
  February 23 at 9:00 PM
• RITUALS IN THE AVANT-GARDE PGM 7: BUTOH ON FILM
  February 24 at 6:45 PM
• RITUALS IN THE AVANT-GARDE PGM 8: MICHIO OKABE
  February 24 at 8:30 PM
• RITUALS IN THE AVANT-GARDE PGM 9
  February 25 at 7:30 PM
• Masao Adachi
  GUSHING PRAYER
  February 26 at 7:30 PM