Motoharu JONOUCHI
Gewaltopia Trailer
Nippon Retro ²
The title Gewaltopia Trailer has a dual meaning in the Japanese language; one meaning for the word yokoku (trailer) could mean a compilation of extracts to promote a film, but it can also mean a prediction, a prophecy for the future as a Gewaltopia (violence + utopia). The film accumulates footage from JONOUCHIs earlier films and arranges them in different contexts, a characteristic method for JONOUCHI who often re-edited his films for each screening and provided different soundtracks. The jarring aural atmosphere, exemplary of the emergent noise-music scene, haunts the screen in an oppressive hypnosis and will seduce you into entrancement.
Related Events:
Gewaltopia - Images Of Protest (NC 2012)
Counterculture (NC 2007)
About Motoharu JONOUCHI
In the 1960s, Motoharu JONOUCHI was one of the directors of the legendary VAN Film Science Research Centre, where artists engaged in an interdisciplinary exploration of film as a form of expression. JONOUCHI documented happenings, public performances and socio-political protests. The program presents a selection of his political works.