Pigs, Eels & Insects: Symposium

Pigs, Eels & Insects: Reassessing The Legacy of Shohei Imamura

Arnolfini presents a season of films by Shohei Imamura, the only Japanese director to twice win the Palme d'Or. Known for his interest in the pimps, serial killers and prostitutes of Japanese society and for his irrepressible heroines, Imamura was a multi-faceted director, equally capable of the bawdy, irreverent stuff of his bold 60s new wave titles and later more austere and delicate films. Always with a glint in his eye, his anthropological brand of cinema continued to push the boundaries of both form and content over more than 40 years. 

www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/imamura.html
www.midnighteye.com

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For Japenese film lovers you can also catch Ghost in the Shell 2.0 at Watershed during October.

A one day event bringing together experts including Professor Tadao Sato of the Japan Academy of Moving Images, to explore and celebrate the career of Shohei Imamura. The panel will examine his incisive insights into the lives, loves and experiences of everyday people in post-war Japan. His characters, above all his extraordinary heroines, move in a fascinating zone between documentary and fiction, navigating between private desires and public duty, tradition and modernity, and local and westernizing forces. Mark Bould, Reader in Film Studies at UWE, and Jasper Sharp, editor of Midnight Eye, are among the symposium presenters.

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