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.
The series of screenings of feature-length color films in [Cinema Program] Emiko Kasahara “trigonometry” was chosen by artist Emiko Kasahara to complement her new work at Parasophia. It includes both Japanese and Manchurian wartime propaganda films and Soviet films made in the early postwar period.



Emiko Kasahara (笠原恵実子)
b. 1963 in Tokyo, Japan; based in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Culture 2015 participating artist. Read more: Emiko Kasahara