Norio Imai: Film and Video Works
Time Severed, Jointed and Stretched

As the closing event of the exhibition A Feverish Era in Japanese Art. Expressionism in the 1950's and 1960's, this screening / talk focuses on a pioneering voice that led the next generation of Japanese contemporary art. As Gutai’s youngest member, Norio Imai’s white relief sculptures might be familiar, but his works involving film, slides and video have received very little attention. 

The 2nd Taiwan International Cat Film Festival – Tapetum Lucidum 2017, curated by LIU Yung-Hao and LEE Ming-Yu, is the first cat film festival in Taiwan, and also the first cat film festival in Asia, which looks at cinema through cats. Cats are mysterious, elegant, friendly, and smart. Cats fascinate artists.

Mechanics are at the heart of the cinematographic system, and also a motif dear to experimental filmmakers.

Programme:
- Kipho (Guido Seeber, 1925, 6’)
- Footprints (Bill Morrison, 1992, 6’)
- La Marche des machines (Eugène Deslaw, 1928, 9’)
- Oil Wells: Sturgeon road & 97th street (Christina Battle, 2002, 3’)
- Windmill 2 (Chris Welsby, 1972, 8’)
- Rode molen (Esther Urlus, 2013, 5’)
- Couleurs mécaniques (Rose Lowder, 1979, 16’)

Ciné concert

Produced in 1927, Berlin: Symphony of a Big City is considered one of the most iconic urban symphonies of late-1920s European avant-garde cinema. Reflecting the thinking of Futurism, Walter Ruttmann painted the portrait of the German city during one day, from dawn to dusk. The era of industrialisation was at its peak; urban modernism had become a fashion. The "city symphony" became a fully-fledged film genre, whose characters were the railway, the dance of the trams, the magic of electricity and the roar of automobiles. From this rapidly-developing city arose a resounding combination of new sounds, now given a new dimension by musicians Simon Fisher Turner, Klara Lewis and Rainier Lericolais through a contemporary sound and musical creation.