GENIUS LOCI: Contemporary Japanese Experimental Film & Video
Guest Speaker: Koyo YAMASHITA
Date & Time: Tuesday, 1 September, 2015 @ 8:30pm.
Venue: Lostgens’ Art Space, No. 8, 3rd Floor, Jalan Panggong, 50000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/416136141919520/
KLEX ExScreen series presents to you contemporary Japanese experimental film and video from the prestigious Image Forum Festival from Tokyo, Japan! Featuring works by Mikio OKADO, Saya ITO, Hirofumi NAKAMOTO, Hideki KAWAHARA + Maya NUKUMIZU, Ryo ISHIKAWA and Shunsuke HASEGAWA. Festival director and curator Koyo Yamashita will present the programme in person! Come meet Yamashita-san! See you there!
Koyo YAMASHITA has been festival director of Image Forum Festival since 2001. He is the programmer of Theater Image Forum in Shibuya, Tokyo since 2005, and has been guest programmer/curator for many film and media art festivals and film events in and outside Japan, such as: Transmediale (Berlin), Norwegian Short Film Festival (Grimstad), Seoul New Media Festival Festival (Seoul) and more. He has served as jury for many international film and art festivals such as Hong Kong International Film Festival, Cannes Director’s Fortnight and Rotterdam International Film Festival.