Makino Takashi is one of the most prolific and adventurous filmmakers working in Japan today and is known world wide for his complex, immersive and overwhelming film experiences. Treating image and sound as elements of equal importance, Makino produces immense and infinite non-narrative and abstract film works, at once cosmic and organic, which activate the screening space in powerful and dynamic suggestions of depth and infinity. Makino has worked with musicians such as Jim O'Rourke, Machinefabriek, Floris Vanhoof and Hiroshi Hasegawa (Astro) among others.
As part of a special West Coast tour, Makino Takashi appears in person to present and perform live soundtracks for two recent works: Space Noise, “a duel between the all-dominant immaculate digital and the irregular organic material dissolves in multiple layers of chaos,” and Phantom Nebula, “a changeable ethereal gaseous mass with no definite form” (S8: Mostra de Cinema Periférico).
Completing the program is an interstitial visitation from intergalactic travelers Rubber(()Cement—featuring A-Gene-Rack and the CIMEVOX 30084—scrambling the screening with the confrontational chaos of hi-speed electronic cardboard!
Presented by San Francisco Cinematheque. Program funded in part by a grant from The Japan Foundation, in partnership with Cinema Project, Portland, and Los Angeles FilmForum.
For more information and advance ticket details: http://www.sfcinematheque.org/screenings/makino-takashi-space-noise/
Cost: $10 general /$5 Cinematheque members