12:00pm - April/8/2025
You are invited to the CEAS colloquium lunchtime talk on Tues April 8, titled "Matsumoto Toshio's Antifascist Film-Philosophy." Details found here:
https://ceas.sas.upenn.edu/events/2025/04/08/matsumoto-toshios-antifascist-film-philosophy
This talk analyzes fiercely political filmmaker Matsumoto Toshio through the lens of antifascism and unorthodox communist politics. Matsumoto Toshio was an avant-garde documentary filmmaker best known for the queer, kaleidoscopic Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), a series of "neo-documentary" films from the early-mid 1960s, and expanded cinema practices in museums and gallery spaces. He was also a prolific film theorist, with hundreds of articles to his name, and served at the helm of the journal Kiroku eiga (documentary film). This talk articulates Matsumoto's philosophical stance and argues that Matsumoto's complex writing describes avant-garde documentary as a privileged art form, uniquely capable of battling against everyday fascist ideology-- both fascism in the streets, and in our mindset and everyday behavior.
Location TBD