FESTIVAL/TOKYO

Showings of artist documentaries and films of major world theatre works, looked at from historical contexts.
This year focuses on groundbreaking German drama and 2 key twentieth century festivals.

1. Ich schau Dir in die Augen, gesellschaftlicher Verblendungszusammenhang! / René Pollesch

Guest: Bert Neumann (Stage Designer, Germany)

Germany / 2010 / 90 minutes / German, Japanese Subtitles

This solo play premiered in 2010 and has enjoyed great popularity. In the huge main space of the Volksbühne Theater in Berlin, actor Fabian Hinrichs performed the parody work in his underwear. Blending dialogue, songs and dancing, this comical play brings to light Pollesch's unique, sharp theories of humanity, the stage and society

Date: Sep 13 (Tue), 2011 19:00
Venue: Goethe-Institut Tokyo
Tickets: ¥500

2. Foreigners Out! / Christoph Schlingensief / Paul
Poetz
Germany / 2002 / Colour / 90 minutes / German,
Japanese subtitles

Enfant terrible Schlingensief died last year at the age
of 49 and this documentary work was his most controv-ersial work, featuring 12 asylum seekers living in a co-ntainer installed in front of the Vienna Opera House.

Date: Nov 1 (Tue), 2011 19:00
Venue: Goethe-Institut Tokyo
Commentary: Hans-Thies Lehmann (TBC)
Ticket: ¥500

Programs 1 and 2 presented by Festival/Tokyo
Executive Committee and Goethe-Institut Tokyo.

3. Festival d'Avignon at 60: Former Papal Court and Battlefield / Michel Viotte, Bernard Faivre d'Arcier
France / 2006 / Colour / 75 minutes / French, Japanese subtitles

Marking 60 years of the international festival, this documentary features interviews with previous directors and artists. It includes performances by Peter Brook, Pina Bausch and Le Théâtre du Soleil.

Date: Oct 15 (Sat), 2011 17:00; Nov 5 (Sat), 2011 19:00
Venue: L'Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo
Commentary: Sophie Loucachevsky (Nov 5)
Tickets: ¥500 (each)

4. First Toga Festival Report
Japan / 1982 / Colour / 50 minutes / Japanese

Records the Toga Festival of 1982, Japan's first intern-ational theatre festival, including interviews with Shuji Terayama, Shogo Ohta, Tadashi Suzuki, Meredith Monk, Robert Wilson and Tadeusz Kantor.

Date: Oct 15 (Sat), 2011 18:30; Nov 5 (Sat), 2011 17:00
Venue: L'Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo
Commentary: Tadashi Uchino (Oct 15), Akihiko Senda
(Nov 5)
Tickets: ¥500 (each)

Programs 3 and 4 presented by Festival/Tokyo
Executive Committee and L'Institut Franco-Japonais de Tokyo.