Past Event: Kinema Club XXIII

Fri May 30, 2025 12:00 a.m. — Sun Jun 1, 2025 11:59 p.m.
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CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

Friday, May 30th

  • 9:30 – 10:30: Panel A1
  • 10:40 – 12:00: Panel A2
  • 12:10 – 13:10: Discussion Session: Possible Futures

Saturday, May 31st

  • 9:30 – 10:10: Panel B1
  • 10:20 – 11:40: Panel B2
  • 11:50 – 12:50: Discussion Session: The Graduate Student Perspective

Sunday, June 1st

  • 14:00 - 15:30: Roundtable Discussion (Mousonturm Studio 1). Discussants: Hannah Airriess (University of Indiana Bloomington), Kenta Kato (Meiji University) , Takuya Tsunoda (Columbia University)

PANEL SCHEDULES 

PANEL A1: Landscapes of Cinema

  • Fūkei Cinema Expanded - Shayne Bowden (University of Sydney)
  • Fūkei-ron as Theory or History? - Markus Nornes (University of Michigan)
  • “Cinema Iris” as a Model for Local Film Culture and Film Production in
  • Japan - Roland Domenig (Meiji Gakuin University)

 PANEL A2: Across Media Channels

  • Derrida’s Before the Law and Oshima’s Death by Hanging: the Question of Hallways in The Trial - Vivien Jiaqian Zhu (Stanford University) 
  • Male-oriented Media and Gender Stratification on Film as Part of the Media Mix - Wei Lin Tan (Harvard University)
  • Voice as Nostalgia - Sound Media Representation in the Post-Silent Cinema Era - Eun Jeong Choi (New York University)
  • From the Amateur’s Palm: Obayashi’s Early Cinema and Film Writings - Alexander Platt (Kyoto University)

PANEL B1: Mechanical Visions

  • On Technology - Takuya Tsunoda (Columbia University)
  • From Camera’s Eye to Image Networks: Rethinking Art Cinema in Japan - Ziru Chen (Oxford University)
  • (Re-)Animating the Ruins: The Destructive Imagination in the Works of Ito Takashi - Hal Young (University of St. Andrews)

PANEL B2: Re-evaluating existing categories

  • Historiography of Benshi: An Introduction - Sonia Cutuli (University of Geneva)
  • Feudalism, Or Was It? Kinoshita Keisuke in a Transnational Context - Kevin McKiernan (University of Minnesota)
  • Ōizumi Akira and the Radical Potential of Program Pictures - Kenta Kato (Meiji University)
  • On Salaryman Films - Hannah Airriess (Indiana University Bloomington)