Art Works by Film Makers

For this meetup, we will spend an afternoon in Ebisu to check out following two exhibitions.

1. Jan Švankmajer + Eva Švankmajerová "Natural History"
2. Pedro Costa Innervisions

Meeting Time: 1:00PM (13:00)
Meeting Spot: Around the West Exit (on 1F) of JR Ebisu Station
(https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/stations/e290.html)

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First Exhibition
Jan Švankmajer + Eva Švankmajerová "Natural History"

Venue
Librairie 6
(http://www.librairie6.com)

Admission Fee
Free

Information about the Exhibition
Librairie 6 showcases about 30 works by world renowned film maker Jan Švankmajer and his wife, Eva Švankmajerová, including drawings, collages, and sculptures.

Official Website (Japanese)
https://librairie6.com/?p=7070

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Second Exhibition
Pedro Costa Innervisions

Venue
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
(https://topmuseum.jp/e/contents/pages/access_index.html)

Admission Fee
¥800

Information about the exhibition
"Representing Portugal, filmmaker Pedro Costa (1958–) has been highly acclaimed internationally not only for his cinema, but also for exhibitions such as Company, held in 2018 at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto, and The Song of Pedro Costa, which from 2022 to 2023 toured various regions of Spain.
The title of this exhibit commemorates the album Innervisions (1973) by Stevie Wonder, whom Costa encountered in his teens and would become a great inspiration for him. The spirit of this album, which approaches the relationships between societies and individuals with music, deeply resonated with Costa’s praxis of cinema.
Theatrically released in Japan in 2004, In Vanda’s Room records the harsh everyday of a woman who, having migrated from the former Portuguese colony Cape Verde, lives in the Fontainhas quarter of the slums of Lisbon. Such films by Pedro Costa strongly contrast darkness and light in tranquil, yet meticulous compositions within which fragments of reality are salvaged and social structure keenly dissected, displaying new points of view.
This exhibit introduces cinematic works related to characters like Ventura, who take on vital roles in Costa’s oeuvre, and the places they live, in addition to the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum’s collection. Touching upon Costa’s cinematic expressions and their sociohistorical contexts, we arrived upon Innervisions as title and central motif. " [from the Exhibition Website]

Official Website (Japanese)
https://topmuseum.jp/e/contents/exhibition/index-5094.html

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Chat session
We will take a coffee break between the first and second show to have a chat session.