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The Transcultural Studies Division holds lecture series as a part of the course, “Transcultural Asian Cinema” conducted by Prof. Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano.

The Transcultural Cinema Forum in 2025 will consider what “cinema” means: the cinema, born at the end of the 19th century and regarded as the king of entertainment throughout the 20th century, is undergoing a major transformation in its form with the advent of the Internet in the 21st century. The purpose of this course is to reconsider the question “What Is cinema?” from the perspective of the year 2025.

To this end, the Transcultural Cinema Forum will invite six guest speakers over the course of nine weeks, each of them an expert in his or her field, to define and reflect on “cinema” from all angles. In addition, films will be screened in class while matching each week’s topic. Since this course will be held in two sessions combined, the duration of the lecture will be 8 weeks instead of 15 weeks. Students will also be visiting the movie theater, Demachi-za/出町座, to view a film on the big screen and to analyze the theater itself in May.

Director/Editor: The joys and difficulties of making films.
Guest Speaker: Yamazaki Ema/山崎エマ
Date & Time: 2025.4.15 (Tue), 15:00-18:15
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Film Producer/Editor: What does it mean to produce a documentary film?
Guest Speaker: Hata Takeshi/秦岳志
Date & Time: 2025.4.22 (Tue), 15:00-18:15

Distributor: Why I started my own distribution company.
Guest Speaker: Kojima Atsuko/小島烈子
Date & Time: 2025.5.13 (Tue), 15:00-18:15

Film Theaters Owner: How do I run a movie theater called “Demachiza”?
Guest Speaker: Tanaka Seiichi/田中誠一
Date & Time: 2025.5.20 (Tue), 15:00-18:15

Archivist: What does it mean to archive a film?　
Guest Speaker: Tochigi Akira/とちぎあきら
Date & Time: 2025.6.3 (Tue), 15:00-18:15

Film Festival Curator: What does it mean to promote Asian cinemas to the market through film festival?
Guest Speaker: Ishizaka Kenji/石坂健治
Date & Time: 2025.6.10 (Tue), 15:00-18:15

Location: Lecture Room 9(講義室9), Basement Floor,
Research Building No.2 (総合研究2号館)
Language: English
Free to All

Professor Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano will be hosting a screening of a documentary film, followed by a Q&A session with the director.

Date & Time:
Monday, October 28, 2024
15:00-18:15

Location:
Seminar Room 2, 2nd Floor, Faculty of Letters Main Building, Kyoto University (MAP⑧)
https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/access/campus/yoshida/map6r-y

Guest:
Kaoru Ikeya (Film Director, Professor at Konan Women’s University)

Language:
Japanese (English subtitles)

Free to all

For inquiries, please contact:
Prof. Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano
wadamarciano.mitsuyo.6w[at]kyoto-u.ac.jp

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The Transcultural Studies Division holds lecture series as a part of the course, “Transcultural Asian Cinema” conducted by Prof. Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano.

The theme of the Transcultural Cinema Forum in the second semester of 2024 is “New Film History from Women‘s Documentaries. ” The objective of this course is to examine Japanese documentary film history from the perspective of women through study of films of women such as Oda Kaori, Komori Haruka, and Toda Hikaru, who have worked as directors without learning filmmaking from “men.”

Since this course is taught in two consecutive classes, the entire course is three hours long. Therefore, the course is eight weeks instead of fifteen. During this period, we will have six guest speakers to share their thoughts and films, and at the same time, discussions with all participants are planned during the Q&A session after the screenings.

Date & Time: October 8, 15 29, November 5, 12, 19 15:00-18:15
Location: Lecture Room 9(講義室9), Basement Floor,
Research Building No.2 (総合研究2号館)
Language: English
Free to All

Please find posters here: PDF