FESTIVAL/TOKYO

Summary

A series of special film screenings giving audiences better understanding of performances featured in the main F/T Program. These films are particularly recommended for audiences for "Crisis Trilogy III: The Priestess", and the Jelinek productions "Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel)", "Kein Licht." and "Kein Licht II".

Program 1:
"Crisis Trilogy I: JP.CO.DE" / Krétakör
Hungary / 2011 / Colour/ 62 min / Hungarian and English, Japanese subtitles
10/27 (Sat) 16:00; 10/28 (Sun) 14:00; 10/29 (Mon) 16:00; 10/30 (Tue) 11:00
Venue: Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Theatre East

The "Crisis Trilogy" is a semi-documentary drama series telling the story of a son and his parents from each of their perspectives through the different forms of film, opera and theatre, creating a portrait of the contemporary community in the context of the daily life of a family in collapse. This screening features the first part of the trilogy, coinciding with the staging of part 3, "The Priestess", in the main F/T Program.
*Recommended for audiences over 16.

Program 2:
"The Piano Teacher" / Michael Haneke
France / Austria / 2001 / Colour / 132 min / French, Japanese subtitles
11/5 (Mon) 19:00 (Pre-Screening Talk: 18:30)
Venue: Institut français du Japon - Tokyo - Espace Images

This screen adaptation of Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek's much-discussed novel paints a dark, destructive love story inside the Vienna bourgeoisie. Controversial but acclaimed on its release in 2001, it won 3 prizes at the Cannes Film Festival and is an ideal companion piece to the 3 Jelinek stage performances at F/T12.
*Recommended for audiences over 16.

Special Guest Speaker: Keiko Nakagome
Born in Tokyo. Member of the Overseas Committee at the Jelinek Research Center (Vienna University). Since 2012 a honorary professor at Taito Bunka University, Tokyo.
Publications: "Gender and literature - Jelinek, Wolf, Bachmann" (Choeisha, 1996)
Translations: Christa Wolf: "Voraussetzungen einer Erzählung: Kassandra", Frankfurter Poetik-Vorlesungen I-IV (1982) [Kobunsha, Christa Wolf, Selected works, 1998]; Elfriede Jelinek: "The Piano Teacher" (1983) [Choeisha, 2002], "Lust" (1989) [joint translator, Choeisha, 2004]; Christa Wolf: "Cassandra" [Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2009], "Princess Dramas" (2002) [Choeisha, 2009], "Das Lebewohl (Les Adieux)" [Choeisha, 2009], "Die Kinder der Toten" (1995) [joint translator, Choeisha, 2010].

Presented by Festival/Tokyo, Austrian Embassy / Austrian Cultural Forum, Institut français du Japon - Tokyo

Program 3:
"Wall of Silence" / Eduard Erne, Margareta Heinrich
Austria / Netherlands / Germany / 1994 / Colour / 88 min / German, Japanese subtitles
11/7 (Wed) 11:00, 17:30, 20:00; 11/8 (Thu) 11:00, 17:30, 20:00; 11/9 (Fri) 16:00, 11/10 (Sat) 11:00, 18:00
Venue: Theater Green, BIG TREE THEATER

On the eve of the end of World War Two at the village of Rechnitz near the Austrian border, a group of aristocratic Nazi supporters hold a party in which 200 Jews are massacred. This documentary turns the spotlight on the people searching for the secret graves of the victims and on the local people from the time who held their silence about what happened for decades. Powerful and thought-provoking, this screening is an ideal opportunity to discover the background for Jelinek's "Rechnitz (Der Würgeengel)" in the main F/T12 Program.

Special support from Austrian Embassy / Austrian Cultural Forum