As part of the international collaboration on the project
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School of Hard Knocks
&
Lokomotiva – Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture
&
AKA Film

 Invite you on FILM NIGHT
With the guests JACOB BURCKHARDT(SAD) and  KYOKO HIRANO(SAD/JAPONIJA)

on Tuesday 4th July from 7h
at Ludnica

Following films will be screened:

ROMA-   political documentary by Jacob Burckhardt, 16mm, 2004, 10min.

TOMORROW ALWAYS COMES-  A film noir in black and white with a detective of color
 Produced and directed by Jacob Burckhardt and Royston Scott, 2006, 50min

KAMIKAZE GIRLS/Shimotsuma Monogatari, directed by Tetsuya Nakajima, 2002, 103 min. color. A contemporary comedy about youth. In this entertaining film, a teenage girl crazy about dressing up as a "Lolita," meets another girl crazy about bikes. The film shows interesting contrast between the urban youth culture and the life in the country-side.
[format: DVD, NTSC, American region]

KINGDOM – Directed by Lars von Trier and Morten Arnfred, (1994, 279min, Feature, Color, DVD format) Originally created for Danish television, Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier's supernatural thriller The Kingdom chronicles the bizarre occurrences at the title hospital, the largest and most respected hospital in the country. While the series deals with such real-life complications as murder investigations and malpractice suits, a more villainous force may be unleashing itself upon the hospital staff. After a patient sees the ghost of a young girl, many of the staff members find themselves involved in frightening and bizarre situations. Eventually, a female doctor becomes pregnant, but the accelerated development of her fetus could be a sign that the evil forces have found a way to enter more permanently into the world. This film consists of the first four episodes (or the entire first season) of the television series.

GUESTS in Ludnica: JACOB BURCKHARDT (USA) and  KYOKO HIRANO(USA/JAPAN)

JACOB BURCKHARDT
Author statement: I have been making independent movies in New York for many years, mostly in 16mm, but in recent years, like everybody else, also in digital video.  Sometimes I think that I have (and have had all along) a kind of schizophrenic approach to filmmaking:  on the one hand I make poetic, visual, not narrative and not didactic documentaries. The most recent of which I finished two years ago, and on the other hand I make narratives: straightforward urban feature stories (especially the two features that I did in the 1980s) and crazy satirical comedies, as I have been doing in recent years with Royston Scott.
I also have been teaching film production and Sound design in two New York Art Schools since 1980.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY All the while making underground movies, JACOB BURCKHARDT worked at a variety of jobs: Blueberry picker, Steel Mill laborer, Fuller Brush man, Truck driver, Taxi driver, camera repairman, photographer of painting and sculpture. He has done sound recording and mixing from North Africa to the porn industry.
In the eighties he directed and produced two features: IT DON'T PAY TO BE AN HONEST CITIZEN, with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Vincent D'Onofrio, and LANDLORD BLUES. Both films screened at various international festivals and were distributed on video.
In 1990 he and Ms. Mahogany Plywood made THE FRANKIE LYMONS NEPHEW STORY, in which they were joined by Royston Scott, and in 2002 these three produced FREEDOM HO, OR HARRIET TUBMANS TALE, a movie about emancipation, which has played in Festivals in Berlin and New York. Then came LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH STREET, the latest installment in the continuing saga Black Moments in Great History, and in 2006, TOMORROW ALWAYS COMES, a film noir in blck and white about a detective of color.

He has also been continuing to make a series of poetic and contemplative black and white 16 mm shorts, the latest of which is ROMA, a familiar pedestrian's eye view of the eternal stones and live people of that living city.
Eschewing the money raising rat race, he prefers shorts, in film and video, where it is possible to preserve a direct relationship between the film and the film makers.

KYOKO HIRANO, BIOGRAPHY is an independent scholar and writer, and was the curator of the Japan Society’s Film Program in New York City from 1986 to 2004. She has written numerous articles and essays on the relationship between Japan and the USA, most notably, Mr. Smith Goes To Tokyo: Japanese Cinema under the American Occupation 1945-1952 (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992), a classic work in the field examining the American role in shaping Japanese culture. Its Japanese translation, Tenno to Seppun (The Emperor and Kisses, Soshisha, 1998) was adapted into an award-winning theatrical play by Yoji Sakate in 1999, which toured in Japan.

A recipient of a Fulbright and a Yugoslav governmental scholarship for postgraduate studies, Hirano completed her Ph.D. in cinema studies at New York University and has taught at NYU, New School University and Keio University. Her professional services include a jury for international film festivals of Berlin and Hawaii, the JET Program, Kyoto Prize, and the Student Academy Awards.

Hirano's articles, interviews and book reviews have appeared both in Japanese and English in newspapers and magazines, e.g., Asahi Shimbun and its website version, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Cineaste, and will be in upcoming issues of The Drama Review and Journal of American History.

She is a co-author of Video de sekai o kaeyo (Change the World by Video, Soshisha, 2003), War, Occupation, and Creativity (University of Hawaii Press, 2001), Hibakusha Cinema (Paul Kagan, 1996); and co-translator of Kiju Yoshida’s Ozu’s Anti-Cinema (2003, University of Michigan Press).