ABRAXAS introduced by Jonathan Hall
(Japan, 113 min.)
“Abraxas, Naoki Kato’s exquisitely crafted
debut feature, is that rare spiritual film that
is funny and moving
without being stuffy”
(James Greenberg,
The Hollywood
Reporter). Abraxas
tells about Jonen
(played by real-life
Japanese rock-star
Suneohair), a former
front man of a thrash band, who has left
rock-and-roll behind to become a Zen
Buddhist monk in a quiet village.
ADRENALINE FILM PROJECT and
After-party! hosted by Jeff Wadlow,
Omar Naim, and Leigh Kilton-Smith
Wednesday, April 18, several teams
of filmmakers will be assigned a genre
and given a line of
dialogue and prop to be
incorporated into their
productions. For the next
seventy-two hours, they
will pitch, write, shoot,
and edit their films. On
Saturday night at The Shedd Institute,
the assembled crowd will vote for an
Audience Award and learn the winner of
the Kalb Jury Award. Afterwards, come to
the Adrenaline After-party, featuring music
and refreshments in the Shedd’s Great
Hall!
ADVENTURES IN ILLEGAL ART
with Mark Hosler
“Adventures in Illegal Art” is a storytelling
and film presentation by Mark Hosler,
founding member of Negativland. Is
Negativland a “band”? Are its artists
media hoaxers? Activists? Musicians?
Filmmakers? Culture jammers? An
inspiration for the unwashed many? A
nuisance for the corporate few? Decide
for yourself in this presentation that uses
films and stories to illustrate some of the
creative projects, hoaxes, pranks, and
“culture jamming” that Negativland has
been doing since 1980.
ANNYONG KIMCHI (Japan, 52 min.)
Annyong Kimchi (Hello Kimchi) was
Matsue Tetsuaki’s 16mm graduate
thesis film, an exploration of his Korean-
Japanese identity. His Korean grandfather
had turned his back on his homeland and
led an assimilated
life as a Japanese.
After he dies,
calling his grandson
“dumb-ass,” the
director becomes
determined to
research his identity.
Fast moving and
humorous, this documentary portrays
a rarely examined aspect of Japanese
society.
ARTIST’S TALK: RUSSEL WONG
Photographer Russel Wong will give an
illustrated artist’s talk to accompany his
exhibition, Russel Wong: The Big Picture,
on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum
of Art. Wong began his career taking
photos of star athletes during his time
as an undergraduate in Eugene. Soon
he was shooting commercial photos for
Nike, fashion photography for leading
magazines such as Vogue and Elle,
and high-profile sports, celebrity, and
movie star portraits for TIME and other
international publications.
CONFESSIONS OF AN OUTSIDER
ARCHIVIST presented by Rick Prelinger
Rick Prelinger will ruminate about the
past, present, and future of archives and
collecting institutions (especially moving
image and digital collections), from the
perspective of an iconoclastic archivist of
ephemeral, disdained media.
THE ECHO OF ASTRO BOY’S
FOOTSTEPS introduced by Jonathan
Hall (Japan, 82 min.)
“I am not interested in
creating sounds that
already exist,” Ohno
Matsuo once stated
early in his career as a
sound designer. The
Echo of Astro Boy’s
Footsteps explores the effect Ohno
Matsuo’s pioneering sound work had
on the anime and experimental sound
community, as well as his influence on
Japan’s emerging electronic music scene.
The film features rare footage of early
anime shows as well as interviews with
industry insiders.
FUKUSHIMA HULA GIRLS
(Japan, 100 min.)
Free screening: April 15, 2:00pm, Baker
Center, sponsored by Consulate-General
of Japan in Portland. On March 11, 2011,
Iwaki City was
devastated by the
tsunami that hit
northeast Japan. This
film documents the
Iwaki City Hula Girls’
promotional tour of Japan, the rebuilding of
the resort made famous in the 2006 feature
film Hula Girls, and one dancer’s life in the
shadow of the damaged nuclear plant.
THE GRINGO IN MAÑANALAND: A
MUSICAL with guest director DeeDee
Halleck (USA, 61 min.)
Composed of several hundred clips from
over eighty different American films, we
are witness to the differing portrayals of
Latin America on film throughout the time
period of 1910 to 1960. The Gringo in
Mañanaland is equal
parts adventure,
propaganda,
documentary,
musical, and
historical analysis.
The various source
materials range
from newsreels,
documentaries, and industrial educational
films, to assorted old Hollywood films and
musicals.
THE HEAVENLY KINGS with guest
actor/director Daniel Wu (Hong Kong, 86
min.)
The Heavenly Kings skewers the Hong
Kong pop industry in its chronicle of the
boy band Alive, a group created in 2005
by Daniel Wu, Terence Yin, Andrew
Lin, and Conroy Chan. The film was an
audacious
directorial
debut by
superstar
Daniel Wu.
Called a
“funny and
astute self-
referential
mockumentary” by Variety, the film is
punctuated with real interviews with
Cantonese pop stars such as Nicholas
Tse and Miriam Yeung.
Cinema Pacific Film Festival
Wednesday, April 18
Thursday, April 19
Friday, April 20
10:00 A.M.
Lawrence Hall
MEDIA MASHERS FORUM
11:00 A.M.
JSMA
ADVENTURES IN ILLEGAL
ART
12:00 P.M.
Proctor 42, Knight Library
ANNYONG KIMCHI
1:00 P.M.
2:00 P.M.
3:00 P.M.
JSMA
CONFESSIONS OF AN
OUTSIDER ARCHIVIST
Proctor 41, Knight Library
PAPER TIGER TV
30TH ANNIVERSAR
PROGRAM
JSMA
THE GRINGO IN
Bijou Art Cinemas
LOST LANDSCAPES OF
DETROIT
JSMA 2
IN THE DIN: DISSONANCE
AND DISSIDENCE IN
JAPANESE FILM TODAY
4:00 P.M.
MAÑANALAND
5:45 P.M.
JSMA
CINEMA P
SPRING EXHIBITIONS
OPENING RECEPTION
6:00 P.M.
6:45 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
JSMA
NIGHT HUNTER AND
OTHER ANIMATIONS
Bijou Art Cinemas 3
TOKYO DRIFTER
Regal Movie Theater
OVERHEARD 2
7:30 P.M.
9:30 P.M.
Bijou Art Cinemas
PORTLAND ANIMA
NOW!
Fringe Festival/Broadway
Commerce Center 4
MEDIA MASHERS
(RE)MIXER
Bijou Art Cinemas
THE ECHO OF ASTRO
BOY’S FOO
Bijou Art Cinemas
MIDORI-KO
1. Baker Downtown Center: 325 E 10th
2. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art: 1430 Johnson Lane
3. Bijou Art Cinemas: 492 East 13th
4. Broadway Commerce Center: 44 W. Broadway, Downtown 7. Regal Movie Theatre: 500 Valley River Center
5. Lawrence Hall: 1190 Franklin Boulevard
8. The Shedd: 868 High Street
6. Knight Library: 1501 Kincaid Street
9. Kamitori Japanese Restaurant: 1044 Willamette Street
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IN THE DIN: DISSONANCE &
DISSIDENCE IN JAPANESE FILM
TODAY Lecture by Jonathan Hall with
three short films by ISHII YUYA
Drawing from the films featured in
Cinema Pacific’s “Playback: The Sounds
of Japan,” Jonathan Hall will reflect on
how sound makes sense today in post-
collapse Japanese performance cultures.
We look to music—to rock, to rap, to
noise, and to metal—and their encounters
with cinema to catch a glimpse of the
creative forces that lie not far from the
surface.
JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI
(USA, 81 min.)
Jiro Ono is an 85-year old sushi chef
and owner of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a ten-
seat restaurant located in a Tokyo
subway station. Jiro also happens to
be considered the world’s greatest
at what he does: his is the first sushi
restaurant to be
awarded an esteemed
three-star Michelin
review. Jiro Dreams
of Sushi is director
David Gelb’s look
at the hardworking,
perfectionist ways
of a man who is as
passionate as he is obsessive. Special
Sushi Package: Ticket to Jiro plus dinner
inspired by the film at Kamitori restaurant
after the 4 p.m. screening: $35.
KANZEON introduced by Jonathan Hall
(Japan, 87 min.)
Shot on the island of Kyushu, KanZeOn
delves into the usages of sound in
Japanese Buddhism and immerses the
viewer in a world of ancient spiritual rituals
and astonishing musical sensations. It
focuses on three compelling individuals:
Akinobu Tatsumi, a young Buddhist priest