“Crazy Love” Subversive Film Screening | Berkeley

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Acclaimed film curator and scholar Hirasawa Go (Meiji University) will screen a rare piece from 1960s Japanese underground cinema related to the Neo-Dada movement and Happenings.

A lecture and introduction will precede the screening.

About Crazy Love: Correlated with Susan Sontag’s theorization of kitsch as well as employing the queer lingo of “camp,” this film’s relentless equal opportunity pop-art montage shattered the foundations of conventional cinema, making it a true document of the Shinjuku underground scene. Director Michio Okabe himself appears recreating his favorite roles from Bonnie and Clyde to Spaghetti Westerns.

1968, 90 min., 16mm, b&w with color.

CRAZY LOVE: Japanese Underground Cinema and Happenings with Hirasawa Go
Date: 11/17/2011
142 Dwinelle Hall
University of California, Berkeley, 94720
Cost: FREE

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