Dream Worlds: Dark Ecologies of Anime
British Summer Time
at The Book Club
Event Details
Join us for a night of mutated ecologies
& the status of animated landscapes.
An experimental evening of film, discussion and art will traverse themes of
dreamed landscapes through the immersive realism of Japanese Anime.
Since Miyazaki’s nuclear fauna, underground forests & poisonous spores of
'Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind’ (1984), anime has explored dark ecologies &
alternative dream and future worlds in new and exciting ways. Screening films
inc. surrealistic transformations of fish, fowl, fruit & Tokyo itself in
Yamamura’s Aquatic (1987) & Fig (2006) / chameleon & fairy-worlds of
dream in Kouji’s computer arts demonstration Tobiro o Akete (1995) / contaminated
natures of Hara & Brenner’s Abita (2013), on children’s dreams &
radioactive realities, with even more tbc.
This evening is not to be missed with a panel discussion on theories of anime, video ecologies, & the natural/unnatural survivals of epic science fantasy with Dr. Chris Holliday (Film Studies, KCL), Dr. Chris Pallant (School of Media, Art and Design, Canterbury Christ Church University), Caroline Ruddell (Screen Media, Brunel University), Lilly Husbands (Associate Editor of Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, RCA) & artist David Surman.
Price: £5