イメージフォーラム・フェスティバル 2020

As part of its educational outreach, the Image Forum Festival 2025 will host the special workshop program Experimental Cinema in Words: Special Screening and Critical Writing Workshop 2025, which combines film screenings with lectures led by four prominent critics and curators. This unique program is designed to support and inspire the next generation of critical voices in the field.
During the festival, participants will develop their own film critique plans and take on the challenge of writing actual reviews. After the festival concludes, the completed critiques will be featured on a special section of the Image Forum website. (*Participation is by advance registration only.)

【Registration】https://iff2025-ws.peatix.com
【Capacity】10 participants
【Fee】¥18,000（includes an IFF2025 all-access pass and the official festival catalogue）
【Venue】Theatre Image Forum

★Program F-K trailer：https://youtu.be/qsU7W4zR1-U

【Schedule】
《１》Sat., September 27
1:30pm　　　　 Program F
4:00pm-5:30pm　Lecture by MA Jung-Yeon
《２》Sun., September 28
1:30pm　　　　 Program G
4:00pm-5:30pm　Lecture by Wiwat LERTWIWATWONGSA
《３》Mon., September 29
1:30pm　　　　 Program H
4:00pm-5:30pm　Lecture by Bunga SIAGIAN
《４》Tue., September 30
11:00am 　 Program I
1:30pm　　　　 Program J
4:00pm-5:30pm　Lecture by Erika BALSOM
《５》Fri., October 3
3:00pm Presentation and Feedback on Participants’ Criticism Plans

＊Advance registration is required to participate.
＊Lectures will be conducted primarily in English.
＊Participants are expected to attend all sessions except for Program《6》, which is optional.
＊All screening programs are open to the general public, not limited to workshop participants.

《１》現代美術、実験映画、その交差点　Contemporary Art, Experimental Cinema, and Their Intersection
■ Screening
On Saturday, September 27 at 1:30pm　Program F (6 works, 97 min) + post-screening talk

■ Lecture
On Saturday, September 27 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm　Lecturer：MA Jung-Yeon (researcher in film and new media studies)

In the context of contemporary fine art, moving images come and go between spacial unfolding in art galleries and screenings at film festivals. While paying respect to the history of video art that explores the mediality distinguishing television and film, and conscious of the gap that intervenes there, this form of art is referred to as “moving images” or “artist’s film/cinema.” This selection aims to reconsider the expansion in the scope of “experiment” revealed by the almost 40-year history of the Image Forum Festival and the richness of time found in “short films” where various genres intersect. — MA Jung-Yeon

《２》“見えざる手”を見つめる　Seeing an Invisible Hand
■ Screening
On Sunday, September 28 at 1:30pm　Program G (4 works, 88min) + post-screening talk

■ Lecture
On Sunday, September 28 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm　Lecturer：Wiwat LERTWIWATWONGSA (film critic, author)

映像は、他の感覚よりも視覚に導かれるメディアと言える。しかし映像はサウンドと共謀して私たちが本当に見ているものを明らかにし、最終的に私たちに「見えないもの」を探求する機会を与えてくれる。逆に、映像について書くことは、読む行為を通じて「見えないもの」を可視化することだと言えよう——目で見えるものを改めて描写し、その意味を説明しようとすることで。
— ウィーワット・ルートウィーワットオンサー

《３》シネマ・オブ・ニュー・エマージング・フォーセズ（SINEFO）：新興勢力映画　SINEFO： Sinema of New Emerging Forces
■ Screening
On Monday, September 29 at 1:30pm　Program H + post-screening talk

■ Lecture
On Monday, September 29 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm　Lecturer：Bunga Siagian (curator, researcher)

Sparked by the Bandung Conference in 1955, a collective anti-colonialism/anti-imperialism movement spread throughout the nations of Asia and Africa. This movement affected not only the domain of politics but also the domain of cinema. In 1958 Afro-Asian film festivals were held in Tashkent, Cairo, and Jakarta, and interaction and exchange between people involved in film in the Global South began. Bunga SIAGIAN, who has tried to bring the phrase “third world cinema” back into the current discourse based on her research on this movement, will lecture on her own undertakings in this field. An attempt to conceive of a process to overcome the current state of division through international dialogue and the study of lost historical resources.

《４》見ることと話すこと：実験映画（エクスペリメンタル・シネマ）について書く　Seeing and Saying: Writing on Experimental Cinema
■ Screening #1
On Tuesday, September 30 at 11:00am　Program I + post-screening talk

■ Screening #2
On Tuesday, September 30 at 1:30pm　 Program J + post-screening talk

■ Lecture
On Tuesday, September 30 from 4:00pm to 5:30pm　Lecturer：Erika BALSOM (film critic)

When James Benning discusses his approach to making films, he describes it as “looking and listening.” Writing about experimental film involves a slightly different, but related set of actions: seeing and saying. In this talk, I will discuss my experience of the specific pleasures and challenges that arise in writing about forms of cinema that break with conventions of the mainstream, as well as the ecosystem of publications that exists to support this activity. At the heart of my remarks is the conviction that writing about experimental cinema at its best shares some of the qualities of its object: it is a resistant practice that breaks with established modes of expression and stands in opposition to the forms of consumption and attention that too often dominate contemporary life. — Erika BALSOM

《５》受講者による批評プランの発表、講評　Final Session: Presentation and Feedback on Participants’ Criticism Plans
Date：On Friday, October 3 from 3:00pm ／ Lecturer：MA Jung-Yeon

《６》参考上映プログラム『GOSHOGAOKA』　Reference Screening Program: GOSHOGAOKA
Screening Dates：[1] On Monday, September 29 at 11:00am　[2] On Thursday, October 2 at 1:30pm

助成：アーツカウンシル東京 [東京芸術文化創造発信助成（単年助成）] 芸術創造活動、公益財団法人ポーラ美術振興財団