PARASOPHIA 京都国際現代芸術祭2015

Parasophia will be presenting a series of film screenings at the Film Theatre of the Museum of Kyoto as the Cinema Program portion of Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015. One series of screenings is curated by participating artist and film scholar Alexander Zahlten, featuring Japanese films from the 1960s to the present with the theme of “East Asia in Japanese cinema,” and another series is selected by participating artist Emiko Kasahara in connection with the historical background on which her work for the exhibition is based, with films from Manchukuo among others. Further screenings of works by Parasophia’s participating artists and other related films are also scheduled, bringing the total to approximately 20 films in all.
[Cinema Program] Alexander Zahlten “Mirrorball on Asia” features eleven entertainment, documentary, and experimental Japanese films from the 1960s to the present with a special focus on “East Asia in Japanese cinema.”

For the first talk to be held in connection with this program, we invite Han Yanli (Associate Professor, Kwansei Gakuin University) to take part in a talk with Zahlten related to the preceding screenings of the Japanese and Hong Kong versions of Asiapol Secret Service, featuring two different actors in the leading role.



Han Yanli (韓燕麗)
Born in Wuhan, China. Doctorate from the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University. Associate Professor, Graduate School of Language, Communication, and Culture, Kwansei Gakuin University.

Alexander Zahlten
b. 1973 in Madison, WI, USA; based in Boston and Kyoto. Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 participating artist. Read more: Alexander Zahlten