Post by petrolino on Apr 13, 2017 17:21:00 GMT
Asian cinema has lost two of its most important filmmakers this week.
Park Nam-Ok has died at the age of 94. Nam-Ok is believed to have been the first female feature film director in South Korea. While making 'The Widow' (1955), she faced staunch resistance. The first recipient of the Park Nam-Ok Award at the Seoul International Women's Film Festival was Yim Soon-Rye who paid tribute to a brave cinematic trailblazer.
Experimental filmmaker Toshio Matsumoto has died at the age of 85. Matsumoto made history with his groundbreaking avant-garde feature 'Funeral Parade Of Roses' (1969), a Greek myth reinterpreted as monochromatic psychedelia by performers plucked from Japan's creative gay underground. Seeing his work was said to be a turning point for leading American film director Stanley Kubrick among others.
"One of the great pioneers of Sixties counter-cinema, Japanese director, video artist and critic Toshio Matsumoto rose to prominence as a daring stylist and fearless provocateur whose radically experimental films shattered social and aesthetic taboos with inspired precision and energy. Matsumoto began as a documentary filmmaker, directing a series of abstract and subtly political shorts that applied a mode of poetic anthropology to postwar society and culture."
- The Harvard Film Archive
May they rest in peace.
Park Nam-Ok has died at the age of 94. Nam-Ok is believed to have been the first female feature film director in South Korea. While making 'The Widow' (1955), she faced staunch resistance. The first recipient of the Park Nam-Ok Award at the Seoul International Women's Film Festival was Yim Soon-Rye who paid tribute to a brave cinematic trailblazer.
Experimental filmmaker Toshio Matsumoto has died at the age of 85. Matsumoto made history with his groundbreaking avant-garde feature 'Funeral Parade Of Roses' (1969), a Greek myth reinterpreted as monochromatic psychedelia by performers plucked from Japan's creative gay underground. Seeing his work was said to be a turning point for leading American film director Stanley Kubrick among others.
"One of the great pioneers of Sixties counter-cinema, Japanese director, video artist and critic Toshio Matsumoto rose to prominence as a daring stylist and fearless provocateur whose radically experimental films shattered social and aesthetic taboos with inspired precision and energy. Matsumoto began as a documentary filmmaker, directing a series of abstract and subtly political shorts that applied a mode of poetic anthropology to postwar society and culture."
- The Harvard Film Archive
May they rest in peace.