Transdisciplinary research of 1960s-1970s Japanese Avant-garde films

• Project/Area Number: 26770074
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Art at large
• Research Institution: Meiji Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: HIRASAWA GO 明治学院大学, 文学部, 研究員 (00573792)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
• Keywords: 映画史 / 前衛芸術史 / フィルムアーカイブ / アーカイブ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project's goal is to institute and develop a new transdisciplinary method of research for areas of 1960s-1970s Japanese Avant-garde films that are difficult to examine with existing academic framework. The project is not limited to the research of 1960s-1970s Japanese Avant-garde film artists and their work, but also includes theoretical and historical examinations of the criticisms and reception to the films at that time, as well as wide-range of current research trends in Japan and abroad. Furthermore, in parallel to the academic research, the project includes the preservation of works. By presenting these outcomes at screenings, symposia, and workshops in Japan and abroad, the project encourages the establishment of international network.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] ニューヨーク大学東アジア研究科(米国)
• [Presentation] History and Politics of Japanese Expanded Cinema in the 1960-70s (2017)
  • Author(s): Go HIRASAWA
  • Organizer: 1960s Japanese Expanded Cinema
  • Place of Presentation: New York University(New York, USA)
  • Year and Date: 2017-03-10
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] New Directions in Research and Program on Japanese Experimental and Independent Film (2017)
  • Author(s): Go HIRASAWA
  • Organizer: Shifting Materialities of Film: Projection, Preservation and Research
  • Place of Presentation: Harvard Film Archive(Cambridge, USA)
  • Year and Date: 2017-03-03
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Masanori Oe and Japanese Experimental Film (2017)
  • Author(s): Go HIRASAWA
  • Organizer: Japanese Experimental Cinema―Between Protest and Performance, 1960-1975
  • Place of Presentation: Northwestern University(Chicago, USA)
  • Year and Date: 2017-02-16
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Masanori Oe and Japanese Radical Documentary (2017)
  • Author(s): Go HIRASAWA
  • Organizer: Newsreel Documentaries of Masanori Oe
  • Place of Presentation: International House Philadelphia(Philadelphia, USA)
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Miyai and Japanese Expanded Cinema (2017)
  • Author(s): Go HIRASAWA
  • Organizer: Rikuro Miyai's Expanded Cinema
  • Place of Presentation: The Art Institute of Chicago(Chicago, USA)
  • Invited
• [Presentation] On Masao Adachi (2017)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: Masao Adachi's Female Student Guerrilla
  • Place of Presentation: nternational House Philadelphia(Philadelphia, USA)
  • Invited
• [Presentation] New Directions in Research and Program on Japanese Experimental Film (2017)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: To Preserve Film is to Project it: A Conversation about Networked Archiving and the Preservation of Japanese Experimental Film
  • Place of Presentation: Slought Foundation(Philadelphia USA)
  • Invited
• [Presentation] On Masao Adachi (2017)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: Female Student Guerrilla
  • Place of Presentation: Light Industry(New York, USA)
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Theorie du paysage et cinema radical (2016)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: Avant-gardes et contre-culture: Au Japon dans les annees 1960
  • Place of Presentation: Maison de la Culture du Japon(Paris, France)
  • Year and Date: 2016-11-05
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] 研究、キュレーションを通じた実験映画の発掘、修復、保存 (2016)
  • Author(s): 平沢剛
  • Organizer: 第11回映画の復元と保存に関するワークショップ
  • Place of Presentation: イマジカ（東京都・品川区）
  • Year and Date: 2016-08-26
  • Invited
• [Presentation] 日本実験映画アーカイブの現在 (2016)
  • Author(s): 平澤剛
  • Organizer: 日本実験映画アーカイブの現状と課題
  • Place of Presentation: 明治学院大学（東京都港区）
  • Year and Date: 2016-06-02
• [Presentation] 松本俊夫と映画の変革 (2016)
  • Author(s): 平沢剛
  • Organizer: 松本俊夫 混沌が意味するもの
  • Place of Presentation: アップリンク（東京都渋谷区）
  • Year and Date: 2016-05-28
• [Presentation] History of Japanese Radical Cinema (2016)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: 1968 in Japanese Cinema
  • Place of Presentation: Guanajuato International Film Festival(Guanajuato, Mexico)
  • Invited
• [Presentation] 戦後における日本映画 (2015)
  • Author(s): 平沢剛
  • Organizer: 光復70年連続講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 韓国歴史問題研究所（ソウル、韓国）
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-16
  • Invited
• [Presentation] New Directions in Research and Program on Japanese Film (2015)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: The Archival Impulse Collecting and Conserving the Moving Image in Asia
  • Place of Presentation: ニューヨーク近代美術館( NYC, US)
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-10
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Nihon University Film Club (2015)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: Japanese Experimental Film and Video
  • Place of Presentation: Asian Art Archive NY
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-08 – 2015-09-09
  • Invited
• [Presentation] New Directions in Research on Japanese Film: Examples from the Practices of Excavation, Restoration, Archiving and Screening (2015)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: REDEFINING ACCESS: JAPANESE MATERIALS, THE ARCHIVE AND RESEARCH IN THE NEW MEDIA ECOLOGY
  • Place of Presentation: Harvard University (Cambridge, US)
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-05
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Masao Adachi and Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema (2015)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: Summer School
  • Place of Presentation: Asiat Culture Theater(Seoul, Korea)
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-02
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Masao Adachi and Japanese Avant-Garde Movement (2015)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: Summer School
  • Place of Presentation: Asian Cultural Complex
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-02
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Media Theory and Landscape Theory (2015)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: Radical Landscape of Japan 2: Takashi Tsumura and the Politics of the Everyday
  • Place of Presentation: New York University
  • Year and Date: 2015-02-21
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Nakahira and Landscape Theory (2015)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: Takuma Nakahira: Radical Media and critical Thought from Japan
  • Place of Presentation: Princeton University
  • Year and Date: 2015-02-13
  • Invited
• [Presentation] From Landscape Theory to Media Theory: Metamorphosis of Cinema and Revolutionary Theory in the Early 70s Japan (2015)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: From Landscape Theory to Media Theory: Metamorphosis of Cinema and Revolutionary Theory in the Early 70s Japan
  • Place of Presentation: University of California, Berkeley
  • Year and Date: 2015-02-09
  • Invited
• [Presentation] An Encounter Between Cinema and Radical Politics in 1960s-70s Japan (2015)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: An Encounter Between Cinema and Radical Politics in 1960s-70s Japan
  • Place of Presentation: University of California, LA
  • Year and Date: 2015-02-03 – 2015-02-05
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Shinjuku and 1968 (2014)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: Shinjuku Culture in the 1960's
  • Place of Presentation: 国際交流基金ロンドン支局
  • Year and Date: 2014-10-17
  • Invited
• [Presentation] AKA: Serial Killer and Landscape Theory [fukeiron] (2014)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: FILM, LANDSCAPE, POLITICS
  • Place of Presentation: London University, Goldsmiths
  • Year and Date: 2014-05-31
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Landscape/Media-an Investigation into the Revolutionary Horizon, Reloaded (2014)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa
  • Organizer: The Fire Next Time
  • Place of Presentation: University of Ghent
  • Year and Date: 2014-04-03
  • Invited
• [Book] The Rise of Independent Cinema in Japan: A History of the Art Theatre Guild (2017)
  • Author(s): Roland Domenig, Go Hirasawa and Julian Ross
  • Total Pages: 320
  • Publisher: I. B. Tauris
• [Book] Against The Grain- Japanese Independent Cinema (2017)
  • Author(s): Go Hirasawa, Roland Domenig and Julian Ross
  • Total Pages: 298
  • Publisher: I.B. Tauris
• [Funded Workshop] 日本実験映画アーカイブの現状と課題 (2016)
  • Place of Presentation: 明治学院大学