FESTIVALS
Doc FortnightCo-organiser / Guest Curator
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Co-organised with Sophie Cavoulacos
2023-2024
The Flaherty Seminar
Co-programmer
Co-programmed with May Adadol Ingawanij
2024
IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
Film Program Advisor
2023
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Programmer
I programmed feature films from Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia and I was a member of the selection committee for the Ammodo Tiger Short Competition and the short film section. I also co-coordinated the Bright Future Competition and IFFR Sessions in collaboration with Kunstinstituut Melly in IFFR 2020.
2015-22
Singapore International Film Festival
Guest Programmer
Collectives - Domain
Co-curated with Inge de Leeuw
We co-curated the film series Collectives that focused on art and film collectives from the 1970s to the present.
25 November - 5 December
2021
Other Futures
Film Curator
I was Film Curator for this edition of Other Futures, an interdisciplinary festival in Amsterdam. We presented works by Shambhavi Kaul, Anocha Suwichakornpong and Truong Minh Quy to present their works, presented Her Name Was Europa by Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy, and I co-curated an Animistic Apparatus programme with May Adadol Ingawanij and we presented works by Riar Rizaldi, Juanita Onzaga, Pathompon Mont Tesprateep, Truong Minh Quy & Freddy Nadolny Poustochkine.
5-6 November
2021
Locarno Film Festival
Selection committee
I was on the selection committee for Concorso internazionale, Cineasti del presenti, Fuori concorso and Moving Ahead for the 2019 edition, and the The Films After Tomorrow for the 2020 pandemic edition.
2019-20
EXHIBITION
Community of Images: Japanese Moving Image Artists in the U.S., 1960s-70sArt Alliance (Philadelphia)
14 June - 9 August
2024
Animistic Apparatus @ Perfect Nature
Zone2Source (Amsterdam)
22 April - 19 June
2022
Land Marks
Le Plaza Cinema (Geneva)
6 - 30 April
2022
More Than Cinema: Motoharu Jonouchi and Keiichi Tanaami
Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)
Co-curated with Ann Adachi-Tasch and Go Hirasawa
Reiew in New York Times, Art in America
6 March - 19 April
2020
Animistic Apparatus - Cosmos
NTT ICC (Tokyo)
Co-curated with May Adadol Ingawanij
As part of the exhibition Open Possibilities, curated by Riar Rizaldi
Films by Bagasworo Aryaningtyas, Stephanie Comilang, Raqs Media Collective, Pathompon Tesprateep and Zai Tang
11 January - 1 March
2020
Animistic Apparatus
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
Co-curated with May Adadol Ingawanij
Works by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tanatchai Bandasak, Chris Chong Chan Fui and The Migrant Ecologies Project (guest Lucy Davis)
Review by Sight & Sound, Hyperallergic, Art Monthly (December 2019 issue), Art Monthly podcast
19-22 September
2019
Blackout
Kunsthal (Rotterdam)
As part of International Film Festival Rotterdam
Works by Kristina Benjocki, Tamara Guimarães, Hannah Dawn Henderson, Prapat Jiwarangsan, Luis Macias, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Ahmad Fuad Osman, Raha Raissnia, Aura Satz, Cauleen Smith, Praneet Soi and Floris Vanhoof
Reviewed in Sight and Sound, NECSUS, Hyperallergic, MUBI, De Groene Amsterdammer, De Filmkrant and Metropolis M
24 January - 3 February
2019
Blackout
Ambika P3 (London)
Works by Kristina Benjocki, Tamara Guimarães, Hannah Dawn Henderson, Prapat Jiwarangsan, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Ahmad Fuad Osman, Raha Raissnia, Aura Satz, Praneet Soi and Floris Vanhoof
12-17 March
2019
Blackout
Greylight (Brussels)
Works by Kristina Benjocki, Tamara Guimarães, Hannah Dawn Henderson, Prapat Jiwarangsan, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Ahmad Fuad Osman, Raha Raissnia, Aura Satz, Praneet Soi and Floris Vanhoof
3-14 April
2019
Imai Norio - Severed Film / Jointed Film
Gallery Joey Ramone (Rotterdam)
As part of International Film Festival Rotterdam
26 January - 4 February
2017
Lav Diaz: Journeys
London Gallery West
Co-curated with May Adadol Ingawanij and George Clark
27 January - 12 March
2017
Still Moving – expositie van de dia-film
Art Cinema OFFoff (Ghent)
Co-curated with Godart Bakkers
Works by Josef Dabernig, Tamar Guimarães, Basim Magdy, Alexandra Navratil, Dennis Oppenheim and Floris Vanhoof
10-21 October
2016
Cosmos: Takashi Makino
London Gallery West
22 January - 21 February
2016
FILM SCREENINGS
Christopher Harris - still/hereEye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam)
Co-presented with Canal++
21 November
2023
Sasha Litvintseva & Beny Wagner
LAB 111 (Amsterdam)
Co-presented with LIMA, ReCNTR and Canal++
23 November
2022
Film Programme: Animistic Apparatus
Zone2Source (Amsterdam)
Co-curated with May Adadol Ingawanij
Works by Shireen Senno, Pam Virada, Riar Rizaldi, Zai Tang & Rei Hayama
9 June
2022
Animistic Apparatus @ Ecological Futures
Ambika P3
Co-curated with May Adadol Ingawanij
Co-presented with Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
16 March
2022
Experiments in Flicker & Love
Lightbox (Philadelphia)
Works by Keiichi Tanaami restored & digitised by Collaborative Cataloging Japan, Joshua Gen Solondz, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Yoriko Mizushiri and Sawako Kabuki
25 February
2022
Animistic Apparatus
Yebisu International Festival for Art @ Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Co-curated with May Adadol Ingawanij
4-20 February
2022
The Inheritance (with Ephraim Asili)
Kriterion (Amsterdam)
Co-curated with Rachael Rakes (as Canal++)
20 October
2021
All and Nothing
Looiersgracht 60 (Amsterdam)
Closing event for exhibition From Seeing to Acting curated by Radical Reversibility
Works by Ismaïl Bahri, Wang Yuyan and Takashi Makino
3 October
2021
Diplopia
Tallinn Photomonth Biennale
Co-curated with Len Murusalu
Works by Keichii Tanaami, Simon Liu, Maryam Jafri, Anto Astudillo, Kristina Norman, Rikuro Miyai, Mika Taanila, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Su-Chen Hung, Saodat Ismailova, Myriam Jacob-Allard, Piibe Kolka and Morgan Quaintance
10 October & 26 September
2021
Animistic Apparatus - the Screening
Alliance Française Bangkok
Co-curated with May Adadol Ingawanij
Based on research project Animistic Apparatus by May Adadol Ingawanij
Works by Tanatchai Bandasak, Félix Blume, Vashti Harrison, Rei Hayama, Rainer Kohlberger, Alexandre Larose, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Juanita Onzaga, Zai Tang, Eduardo Williams and Chikako Yamashiro
20 April
2019
Animistic Apparatus - Mud, Drones and Spirits // Between the Living and the Dead
Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival (London)
Birkbeck Cinema & Close Up Cinema
Co-curated with May Adadol Ingawanij
Work by Korakrit Arunanondchai, Simon Ball, Tanatchai Bandasak, Juanita Onzaga, The Propeller Group, Zai Tang and Chikako Yamashiro
8 June
2019
Animistic Apparatus - Landscape of Spirit
Rijksacademie (Amsterdam)
Co-curated with May Adadol Ingawanij
Works by Tanatchai Bandasak, Juanita Onzaga, Taiki Sakpisit and Danech San
26 September
2019
Also screened as part of
The Image and Its Image
Nordland Kunst- og Filmfagskole (Kabelvåg, Norway)
14-18 October
2019
Zhou Tao - Time Keeper
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Curatorial text
Review in Art Agenda and Post Magazine
26 January
2018
See Through
Tokyo Photographic Arts Museum
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions
Works by Yu Araki, Ismaïl Bahri, Maeve Brennan, Sebastian Buerkner, Daniel Jacoby, Jonna Kina, Rainer Kohlberger, Lisa Oppenheim and James N. Kienitz Wilkins
9-25 February
2018
Hyphen - An Evening with NANG
Open City Documentary Festival (London)
Co-curated with Maryam Tafakory
Works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Ariani Darmawan, Alnoor Dewshi, Prapat Jiwarangsan, Hiraki Sawa and Rehana Zaman
8 September
2018
Other Tongue - An Evening with NANG
Light Industry (Brooklyn)
Co-curated with Maryam Tafakory
Works by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Ariana Darmawan, Simon Liu, Alia Syed and Maryam Tafakory
14 June
2018
Norio Imai: Time Severed, Jointed and Stretched
BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts (Brussels)
Screening with installation
22 January
2017
Japanese Expanded Cinema project
International House Philadelphia
Co-curated by Ann Adachi-Tasch and Go Hirasawa
Initiative by Collaborative Cataloging Japan
Works by Mako Idemitsu, Takahiko Iimura, Motoharu Jonouchi, Kenji Kanesaka and Rikuro Miyai
4 November
2017
Game Play: Artists Playing Video Games
Art Cinema OFFoff (Ghent)
Co-curated with Arron Santry
Works by Peggy Ahwesh, Harun Farocki, Jon Rafman, Brent Watanabe and Angela Washko
14 November
2017
E*Cinema - Takashi Ito
Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam)
1 December
2015
In & Out of Japan
Camera Japan (Rotterdam)
Works by Shigeo Arikawa, Hiro Murai, Hiraki Sawa, Syliva Schedelbauer, Stom Sogo, Joshua Gen Solondz, Hiraku Suzuki and Sonomi Takada
23 September
2015
In & Out of Japan vol. 2
Nippon Connection (Frankfurt)
Works by Shigeo Arikawa, Yuki Kawamura, Meiro Koizumi, Hiro Murai, Tomonari Nishikawa, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Joshua Gen Solondz and Sonomi Takada
7 June
2015
E*Cinema - Takahiko Iimura
Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam)
Screening and performance
21 October
2014
Screen Play - An Evening with Takahiko Iimura
Rongwrong (Amsterdam)
20 October
2014
In & Out of Japan
Nippon Connection (Frankfrut)
Works by Takahiko Iimura, Kenji Kanesaka, Tomonari Nishikawa, Daïchi Saïto, Hiraki Sawa, and Stom Sogo
1 June
2014
E* Cinema - In & Out of Japan
Eye Filmmuseum (Amsterdam)
Works by Takahiko Iimura, Kenji Kanesaka, Yoji Kuri, Tomonari Nishikawa, Daïchi Saïto, Hiraki Sawa and Shinkichi Tajiri
18 February
2014
Gewaltopia - Images of Protest: Motoharu Jonouchi
Deutsches Filmmuseum (Frankfurt)
As part of Nippon Connection
Co-curated with Go Hirasawa
4 May
2012
Essential Experiments: Takahiko Iimura
British Film Institute (London)
19 August
2011
Motoharu Jonouchi: Three Films
Flat Time House (London)
Co-curated with Go Hirasawa
29 July
2011
Motoharu Jonouchi
Nottingham Contemporary
Co-curated with Go Hirasawa
2011
Enter the Cosmos: Takashi Makino
Institute of Contemporary Art (London)
As part of Zipangu Fest
19 November
2011
&
Star and Shadow (Newcastle)
17 January
2012
Seasons Inter View: Takashi Makino
Apiary Studios (London)
Co-curated with Almudena Escobar López
21 November
2011
Nippon Year Zero
Close Up Film Centre (London)
As part of Zipangu Fest
Co-curated with Go Hirasawa
Films by Motoharu Jonouchi, Masanori Oe and Donald Richie
23 November
2010
FILM SERIES
Takeover
e-flux Video & Film (online)
22 September - 15 December
Films by Ephraim Asili, Kurdwin Ayub, Maïder Fortuné and Annie MacDonell, Simon Fujiwara, Dora García, Gary Hill, Su-Chen Hung, Hsu Che-yu, Mako Idemitsu, Myriam Jacob-Allard, Jesse McLean, Jonna Kina, Meiro Koizumi, Natsuka Kusano, Toshio Matsumoto, Agnieszka Polska, Riar Rizaldi, Manuel Saiz, Shireen Senno, Tiffany Sia, Ghita Skali, Lisa Spilliaert, Sriwhana Spong, Pilvi Takala, Isabelle Tollenaere, Joseph Wilson
2022
Shuji Terayama, Emperor of the Underground
Harvard Film Archive (Cambridge, MA)
Co-curated with Haden Guest and Go Hirasawa
3-27 November
2017
Throw Away Your Books: The Films of Shuji Terayama
Anthology Film Archives (New York)
Co-curated with Go Hirasawa and Jed Rapfogel
21 November - 10 December
2017
A Taste of Terayama
George Eastman Museum (Rochester, NY)
Co-curated with Go Hirasawa and Jed Rapfogel
13-27 December
2017
Fragments of Japanese Underground Cinema 1960-1974
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco)
Co-curated with Go Hirasawa
Films by Takahiko Iimura, Rikuro Miyai, Toshio Matsumoto, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Michio Okabe, Yoichi Takabayashi and Shuji Terayama
14-28 February
2013
Rituals in the Avant-Garde: Film Experiments in 1960-70s Japan
Anthology Film Archives (New York)
Co-curated with Go Hirasawa
Films by Masao Adachi, Katsu Kanai, Yoshihiro Kato, Chiaki Nagano, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Michio Okabe, Shinsuke Ogawa, Donald Richie, Katsuhiro Tomita, Noriaki Tsuchimoto, Akira Uno, Atsushi Yamatoya and Tadanori Yokoo
20-26 February
2013
Masao Adachi
Gasworks (London)
As part of the exhibition Eric Baudelaire: The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without Images
Co-programmed with Eric Baudelaire and Robert Leckie
11 May - 22 July
2012
Theatre Scorpio: Japanese Independent and Experimental Cinema of the 1960s
Close Up Film Centre (London)
Co-curated with Go Hirasawa
Films by Masao Adachi, Kazutomo Fujino, Motoharu Jonouchi, Katsu Kanai, Nihon University Film Studies Club, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Nagisa Oshima
Reviewed by Sight & Sound
12-31 July
2011
PERFORMANCE
Cauleen Smith: Black Utopia LP
Kunthal (Rotterdam)
As part of Blackout at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Review in Hyperallergic, NECSUS and Art Monthly
27 January
2019
Beyond the Frame: Miyai Rikuro and Paul Sharits
Tokyo Photographic Arts Museum
As part of Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions
Co-curated with Hiroko Tasaka and Go Hirasawa
24 February
2018
Rikuro Miyai's Expanded Cinema
The Art Institute of Chicago
Co-curated with Go Hirasawa
9 February
2017
The Open Frame
Berlin University of the Arts
As part of Film in the Present Tense symposium
Co-curated with Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy
Works by Britt Al-Busultan, Scott Fitzpatrick, Sally Golding, Guy Sherwin and Zero Pixel
Publication: Film in the Present Tense: Why can’t we stop talking about analogue film?
21 October
2017
Shuji Terayama's Laura/The Trial
Segal Centre/CUNY (New York)
Co-curated with Go Hirasawa and Jed Rapfogel with Peter Eckersall
20 November
2017
Throwing Shadows: Japanese Expanded Cinema in the Time of Pop
Tate Modern (London)
Co-curated with George Clark and Go Hirasawa
22-24 January
2016
Spectral Presence: Expanded Cinema from Britain and Beyond
Art Cinema OFFoff (Ghent)
As part of Film Fest Gent
Co-curated with Godart Bakkers
Works by Esperanza Collado, Cordula Ditz, Sally Golding, Malcolm Le Grice, Anthony McCall, OJOBOCA, Greg Pope, Lis Rhodes, Daïchi Saïto, Floris Vanhoof
23 October
2015
PROJECT ASSISTANCE
Japan ModernSmithsonian Institute, Freer Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.)
Exhibition - film selection advisor
28 September - 21 January
2018-19
Fluorescent Chrysanthemum Remembered
Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art (Gdansk, Poland)
Curated by Jasia Reichardt
Exhibition - film selection coordinator
18 December - 24 February
2018-19
Japanese Expanded Cinema Revisited
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
Curated by Hiroko Tasaka
Exhibition - exhibition advisor
15 August - 15 October
2017
Fluorescent Chrysanthemum
Institute of Contemporary Art (London)
Curated by Jasia Reichardt
Exhibition - film selection coordinator
Gallery tour
4 October - 27 November
2016
Art Theatre Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema
Museum of Modern Art (New York)
Co-curated by Roland Domenig, Roland Domenig and Josh Siegel
Film series - Assistant Curator
2012-13
Chronicles of Inferno
Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archives
Co-curated by Roland Domenig and Go Hirasawa
Film series - Assistant Curator
2013
Art, Performance & Activism in Contemporary Japan
Pumphouse Gallery (London, UK)
Exhibition - film screening advisor
19 January - 26 February
2012
Shinjuku Diaries: Films from the Art Theatre Guild of Japan
British Film Institute (London)
Curated by Roland Domenig and Go Hirasawa
Film series - Programme Coordinator
1-31 August
2011