Shibuya culture PROJECT

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, From the February 20 (Fri) to March 1 (Sun), using the entire floor of the same building, combined video media project"Ebisu Image Festival"To be held. At the venue, during the time period, the artists were presented to artists at the same time. In addition to the screening at the 1F Hall, in the exhibition rooms of 3F, 2F, 1F underground, display expressing images that does not fit on the screen such as planes, cubes and installations will be exhibited. Also, artists and talks using the 2F cafe and live performances that were popular at the "Seven Nights Over the Movie" held last year as the pre-event of the festival of the festival this year will also be held in the basement 1F, It is an event to pursue diversity without being caught in the existing "video festival" frame. Also, this video festival will not only stay for 10 days to be held at the venue (real site), but also continue on the official website for the next 355 days. It is planned to function as a terminal of video media linking each other's large and small activities around the picture.
The comprehensive theme of the Ebisu Image Festival 2009, which will be the first one, is "Alternative Visions". After the era of mass media symbolized by television has promoted mass consumption, each individual is giving a chance to discover more value in the image while looking at the modern age where network type media is entering life .

This time, I would like to introduce the front line of visual media while paying attention to the Ebisu picture festival, screening, exhibition, artist talk and live media.
In the exhibition room of 3F, 2F, underground 1F, 14 works of artists will be exhibited. One of them was by Andy Warhol (1928-87), an artist representing pop art. Warhol became popular as an illustrator of commercial advertisement, and after publishing painting work by photo silk screen technique, this technique became one of his major production techniques throughout his life. Warhol, who moved to Studio "Factory" in 1963, will start working on film production. Starting shooting in the "screen test" series with various subjects visiting "Factory" as the subject since 1964. Warhol who produced works in a wide range of formats, but, as the word "my desire was to be an art, businessman, business artist", he said that his theme consistently took on mass media and consumer society I can say that.

また、1Fホールでは、恵比寿映像祭でディレクターを務める岡村恵子さん、東京国立近代美術館フィルムセンター主任研究員の岡田秀則さん、山形国際ドキュメンタリー映画祭東京事務局ディレクターの藤岡朝子さん、オーストラリア在住のキュレーターのジョエル・スターンさんなど、合計9名の専門家が考案した合計20の上映プログラムを、順次上映して行く。 映像作家の太田曜さんプログラムによる上映『日仏の最新手作り映画傑作選』では、「“時代遅れ”」の「フィルム」に着目し、手作業でフィルムにダイレクトにプリント、編集された作品群から傑作選を選び抜いた。また、藤岡朝子さんが選んだのは、日本占領中に設立され、後に人口の多い工業地域に変貌していった中国東北部瀋陽にある鉄西区が、廃虚となっていく様子を長期に渡って記録したドキュメンタリー『鉄西区』。合計9時間（545分）におよぶこの超長編ドキュメンタリーは、『中国社会の現実を見据えて　ドキュメンタリー《鉄西区》』と題され、「工場」「街」「鉄路」という三部に分かれて上映される。

Also in the 1F underground exhibition room, there will be a discussion between Tatsuo Matsumoto and Naohiro Ukawa, a collaboration live with the theme of "instrument" by hardcore unit OPTRUM ​​and Masaya Nakahara of violent hot spring geisha, and sound artist Tetsuya Umeda . The new generation "Digital & Human Power Audio = Visual Trio" (Atsushi Sasaki) dvd is scheduled to perform at 2F as an opening, and you can enjoy a total of 5 stage live events in sequence.
In addition, outside the venue of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the six large visions around Shibuya station are screening the world's first new work produced by Korean-born Jang Young-hee heavy industry set in Shibuya for 2 minutes every day during the period . Jang Yong Ha Heavy Industries produced / published commission work at the Tate Museum (London) and the Pompidou Museum (Paris). In December 2008 it is an art unit that draws hot attention from leading art fans all over the world holding solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Modern Art, Athens.

This festival using the whole floor is for the special photograph and video specialty museum in Japan only. Since it is free to enter the exhibition on the 3rd floor, the 2nd floor, the 1st floor under the floor except for the one with the capacity limitation, I want the opportunity to feel the cutting edge of diversified video media with the skin.

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