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5:30 PM
BLACK SMOKER RECORDS PRESENTS: BLACK THEATER -Sounding Films-
Silent Movies with Live Music|The BLACK SMOKERS create new Sounds for experimental silent movies from the archive of the Goethe-Institut
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Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Foyer, Tokyo
- Price 4500 Yen, Students: 3500 Yen
Live Acts:
This project presents short films, experimental films, and animations—mainly of German origin—from the collection of the Goethe-Institut Tokyo. Selected artists from Black Smoker Records create new film music live, exploring a creative symbiosis of image and sound.
The aim is to create a space for new encounters and relationships between image and sound, and to share them with the audience. In a join up of silent films - some over 100 years old - and the experimental sounds of the Black Smokers, layers of meaning are revealed that elevate both the cinematic and sonic experience into a new dimension
Schedule:
16:00 Doors open
17:30 Hiroki Chiba
18:40 Tentenko
19:30 FUJI|||||||||||TA
20:30 Fuyuki Yamakawa × Atsuhiro Ito
////Hiroki Chiba////
Lotte Reiniger – Silhouette Animations (four short films from the Lotte Reiniger collection)
Papageno (1935) approx. 11 min
Cinderella (1922) approx. 13 min
The Star of Bethlehem (1956) approx. 18 min
Galathea (1935) approx. 11 min
Total duration: approx. 52 min
Lotte Reiniger is regarded as a world-renowned pioneer of silhouette and cut-out animation. Her works, influenced by Indonesian shadow play, are distinguished by a unique combination of delicate technique and bold design. Hiroki Chiba creates new sounds for Reiniger’s films.
////Tentenko////
Man and Mask - Oskar Schlemmer and the Bauhaus Stage (1922–29) (reconstruction in 1969, directed by Margarete Hasting, from the series Bauhaus Stage and Dance)
Duration: approx. 27 min
Oskar Schlemmer, head of the Bauhaus stage workshop, developed costumes that transformed the body into a new dimension between human and machine. His iconic dance piece Man and Mask is shown here in the 1969 reconstruction, accompanied by new sounds from Tentenko.
////FUJI|||||||||||TA////
Hans Richter & Kurt Kranz – Experimental Animations (from the Bauhaus Media Art collection)
Hans Richter: Rhythmus 23 (1923/25), 3 min
Kurt Kranz: The Heroic Arrow (1930), 8 min
Kurt Kranz: Variations on a Geometric Theme (1944/1972), 21 min
Hans Richter Rhythmus 21 (1921/23), 3 min
Total duration: approx. 38 min
The experimental short films selected by FUJI|||||||||||TA are considered pioneering works of Bauhaus media art. The sequence of projection has been curated by FUJI|||||||||||TA himself.
////Fuyuki Yamakawa × Atsuhiro Ito////
The Student of Prague (1913)
Screenplay: Hanns Heinz Ewers Director: Stellan Rye
This film is the oldest work in the program and is regarded as the first German art film. Created just before World War I, it is highly valued for helping to elevate cinema from a “low spectacle” to an art form. Yamakawa and Ito combine their sounds with this early masterpiece of fantastic silent film horror.
Duration: approx. 46 min
- Hiroki Chiba
- Tentenko
- FUJI|||||||||||TA
- Fuyuki Yamakawa× Atsuhiro Ito
This project presents short films, experimental films, and animations—mainly of German origin—from the collection of the Goethe-Institut Tokyo. Selected artists from Black Smoker Records create new film music live, exploring a creative symbiosis of image and sound.
The aim is to create a space for new encounters and relationships between image and sound, and to share them with the audience. In a join up of silent films - some over 100 years old - and the experimental sounds of the Black Smokers, layers of meaning are revealed that elevate both the cinematic and sonic experience into a new dimension
Schedule:
16:00 Doors open
17:30 Hiroki Chiba
18:40 Tentenko
19:30 FUJI|||||||||||TA
20:30 Fuyuki Yamakawa × Atsuhiro Ito
////Hiroki Chiba////
Lotte Reiniger – Silhouette Animations (four short films from the Lotte Reiniger collection)
Papageno (1935) approx. 11 min
Cinderella (1922) approx. 13 min
The Star of Bethlehem (1956) approx. 18 min
Galathea (1935) approx. 11 min
Total duration: approx. 52 min
Lotte Reiniger is regarded as a world-renowned pioneer of silhouette and cut-out animation. Her works, influenced by Indonesian shadow play, are distinguished by a unique combination of delicate technique and bold design. Hiroki Chiba creates new sounds for Reiniger’s films.
////Tentenko////
Man and Mask - Oskar Schlemmer and the Bauhaus Stage (1922–29) (reconstruction in 1969, directed by Margarete Hasting, from the series Bauhaus Stage and Dance)
Duration: approx. 27 min
Oskar Schlemmer, head of the Bauhaus stage workshop, developed costumes that transformed the body into a new dimension between human and machine. His iconic dance piece Man and Mask is shown here in the 1969 reconstruction, accompanied by new sounds from Tentenko.
////FUJI|||||||||||TA////
Hans Richter & Kurt Kranz – Experimental Animations (from the Bauhaus Media Art collection)
Hans Richter: Rhythmus 23 (1923/25), 3 min
Kurt Kranz: The Heroic Arrow (1930), 8 min
Kurt Kranz: Variations on a Geometric Theme (1944/1972), 21 min
Hans Richter Rhythmus 21 (1921/23), 3 min
Total duration: approx. 38 min
The experimental short films selected by FUJI|||||||||||TA are considered pioneering works of Bauhaus media art. The sequence of projection has been curated by FUJI|||||||||||TA himself.
////Fuyuki Yamakawa × Atsuhiro Ito////
The Student of Prague (1913)
Screenplay: Hanns Heinz Ewers Director: Stellan Rye
This film is the oldest work in the program and is regarded as the first German art film. Created just before World War I, it is highly valued for helping to elevate cinema from a “low spectacle” to an art form. Yamakawa and Ito combine their sounds with this early masterpiece of fantastic silent film horror.
Duration: approx. 46 min
Location
Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Foyer
7-5-56 Akasaka, Minato-ku
Tokyo
107-0052 Japan
7-5-56 Akasaka, Minato-ku
Tokyo
107-0052 Japan