Working in television while questioning the practices and perspectives of the medium, Muraki Yoshihiko directed documentaries that employ action filming and collage techniques. Screened here will be Media [Masskomi] Q “Futen Piro” -Summer ’67-, Tokyo , in which Muraki and cameraman Asai Takao captured Tokyo youths in the latter half of the 1960s. The progressive spirit of the era will also be reexamined by way of Phenomenology of Zeitgeist, directed by Miyai Rikuro, a colleague of Muraki’s, and shot by Asai Takao.

Program cooperation: MATSU Fusako (Film researcher)