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Free Admission | Wednesday, July 7 - 7:00 PM CST | Japan | 1969 | 105min | STC | Directed by Toshio Matsumoto | In Japanese (English Subtitles)
Introduced by Mike Rollo
Stream this film for free any time, any day with your RPL library card on Kanopy.
Hot young thing Eddie is a hostess at the local Gay Bar Genet, becomes ignited in a violent love-triangle with reigning drag queen Leda in order to grab the attention of club owner Gonda.
Introduction by Mike Rollo:
"I was introduced to Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), Toshio Matsumoto's feature film, through a retrospective of the director's work while living in Montreal. The program offered a collection of shorts and Matsumoto's three-channel film projection For the Damaged Right Eye (1968), a dazzling and unique psychedelic collage of images juxtaposing Japan's youth culture and the country's political turmoil. The retrospective concluded with Funeral Parade of Roses. It was an experience that left me floored with Matsumoto's subversive take on Oedipus Rex, lensing the underground queer culture of 1960s Japan. In the film's non-linear structure, we witness Matsumoto masterfully experimenting with cinematic language, blending hallucinatory visuals, animation styles and verité documentary techniques. Some observers say this film influenced some of the visuals for Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971). I think so but compare for yourself."
Mike Rollo’s practice explores alternative approaches to non-fiction cinema — methods that thematize vanishing communication cultures, rural industries, and transitional spaces through references to memory, history, religion, and autobiography. He is a founding member of Montreal’s experimental film collective Double Negative and Independent Visions in Regina (SK). Mike’s films have screened at festivals and galleries such as the Ann Arbour Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival (Seoul), International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, International Film Festival Oberhausen, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, Kasseler Dokfest, Los Angeles Film Forum, Marseille Festival of Documentary Film, Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro, Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal, and Rotterdam International Film Festival. Mike teaches film production at the University of Regina.
AGE GROUP: | STC |
EVENT TYPE: | Film Theatre Films |
TAGS: | Regina Selects | Free Films | Current |
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