Fw: H-ASIA: CONF Visual Underground: Theatre Scorpio & Japanese Experimental Cinema of the Sixties, Montreal, Sep 16, 2011

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Subject: H-ASIA: CONF Visual Underground: Theatre Scorpio & Japanese
Experimental Cinema of the Sixties, Montreal, Sep 16, 2011

> H-ASIA
> August 31, 2011
>
> Symposium: Visual Underground: Theatre Scorpio & Japanese Experimental
> Cinema of the Sixties, Montreal, September 16, 2011
>
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> From: H-Net Announcements <announce@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
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> Visual Underground: Theatre Scorpio & Japanese Experimental Cinema of the
> Sixties
>
> Location: Quebec, Canada
> Symposium Date: 2011-09-16 (in 16 days)
> Date Submitted: 2011-08-24
> Announcement ID: 187403
>
> Over the past few years the legacy of the Japanese cinematic and artistic
> experiments of the 1960s has received renewed international attention in
> academia in Japan, Europe and North America. Visual Underground: Theatre
> Scorpio & Japanese Experimental Cinema of the Sixties presents and
> reflects on a body of rarely screened experimental Japanese films from
> this decade. Visual Underground is a uniquely conceived event, comprised
> of three days of film screenings (Sept. 16-18, 2011) and a one-day
> academic symposium (Sept.17), both of which are free and open to the
> general public.
>
> Visual Underground will screen a series of experimental films associated
> with the legendary Theatre Scorpio (Sasori-za), as well as with Japan's
> first art-house distributor and production house, the Art Theatre Guild
> (ATG).
>
> For more information, please visit our website:
> www.visualunderground.ca
>
>
> Yuriko Furuhata
> Department of East Asian Studies
> 3434 McTavish St.
> Montreal, Quebec
> H3A 1X9 Canada
> Email: yuriko.furuhata@mcgill.ca
> Visit the website at http://www.visualunderground.ca
>
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