<nettime> Dance and Video Review. Jonas Mekas, Virginie Marchand and Kazuo Ohno

[yoshida yukihiko via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Dear list,

My latest paper on Kazuo Ohno and Jonas Mekas has been published.
Vol. 9 No. 2 (2023): Here Be Dragons. East Asian Film and Religion
Dance and Video Review. Jonas Mekas, Virginie Marchand and Kazuo Ohno
Abstract
Marchand is an up-and-coming poet and filmmaker who is a grandchild from
the perspective of Kazuo Ohno and Mekas. Her characteristic is to draw, in
a very personal way, the layers of the human spirit in different part of
the world. Marchand's work use a language with no rules, she is not a
follower of other art people or history. She had screened some of her
movies at the Anthology Film Archives and in few art galleries, and she
shows extracts of them through Instagram and Youtube.
This review is about a film in which she dances with the legendary Kazuo
Ohno (1906-2010); it was shot by Jonas Mekas and edited by Marchand. The
result is a deeply rooted spiritual experience, caught in moving images and
reflecting a religious experience.
https://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/357
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I am an editor of this issue:
Volume 9, No. 2
Here Be Dragons. East Asian Film and Religion
Published November 15, 2023
Edited by: Christian Wessely, Franz Winter, and Yukihiko Yoshida
https://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/issue/view/18
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Issue description
Media industry is a vibrant element of East Asian popular culture that has
become increasingly important on a global level in the last decades.
Japanese, and recently South Korean and Chinese films or TV series have a
growing and worldwide audience not least because of easier access through
streaming services. The many film productions provide a multifaceted arena
of highly diverse content that spans nearly all aspects of the cultural
developments in the countries. Religion has always played a major role in
these
contexts in various ways and in accordance with the highly diversified
religious landscape of East Asia. Consequently, this issue brings together
contributions on Japanese, Chinese and Korean films, including one
additional glimpse to South Asia, thereby presenting portrayals of
independent filmmakers, highly renowned classics, but also specimina of
manga and anime, the cyberpunk genre, or on most recent highly successful
streaming series. The admittedly tiny sample we can provide is intended to
pique curiosity and encourage readers to delve deeper into the multifaceted
and intriguing relationship between religion and media in Asia. If the
presented contributions, which have been carefully selected, lead to
academic discourse and inspire further research, then this issue will have
served its purpose.
This footage is going to premiered in Japan on Dec 13, 2023 in Tokyo
Documentary Film Festival.
https://tdff-neoneo.com/lineup/lineup-4190/#movie03
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Warm Regards,
Yukihiko YOSHIDA
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