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Lecture | Anti-Fascism and the Avant-Garde Documentary: From Dziga Vertov to Matsumoto Toshio

Monday, April 17, 2023, 4:00 pm

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In 2009, Japanese art historian Oishi Masahiko argued that Matsumoto Toshio’s unabashedly queer, fervently experimental quasi-documentary Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) was the true inheritor of Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov’s avant-garde documentary Man with a Movie Camera (1929). This talk delves more fully into this comparison and explores the curious lineage connecting these two documentary filmmakers and film theorists. This talk explores how both films, with their experimental montage and abundance of editing tricks, served an inherently counter-hegemonic and antifascist function through their desire to liberate human perception.

First, it explains how Vertov’s theory of filmmaking practice could be interpreted as revolutionary phenomenology. The talk then traces the trajectory of the avant-garde documentary from the Soviet 1920s to the Japanese 1960s, well known for being a “season of politics.” Fittingly, the films of this era are revolutionary in form as well as content: they are extremely stylistically varied, revealing a wealth of experimentation unmatched since then in Japanese film history. Yet this is not a simple case of influence, as Vertov’s films and theories were yet not very available in the Japanese context. This talk pairs two seemingly disparate eras and areas to demonstrate how both were engaged in a fervently transnational exploration of documentary film form as inherently political—anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, and indeed anti-fascist—which served to liberate individual and collective consciousness. The avant-garde documentary form spoke to the zeitgeist of the counter-cultural 1960s by prioritizing surrealism, the questioning of assumed truths, and a reinvigoration of leftist thought.

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Lecture | Anti-Fascism and the Avant-Garde Documentary: From Dziga Vertov to Matsumoto Toshio

Monday, April 17, 2023, 4:00 pm