Funeral Parade of Roses
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Muranów
Kinoteka 2
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Film description
A few days in the life of the queer community of Tokyo’s Shinjuku – a district that, before it became the commercial center of Tokyo, was the late 1960s center of counterculture associated with the student left. The camera follows Eddie, a provocateur from the gay bar Genet. Emerging from the episodic narration is a colorful image of the urban jungle, complemented by a documentary observation of the queer underground.
"Funeral Parade of Roses" is one of the most outstanding achievements of the Japanese avant-garde film – a manifesto that paints a colorful picture of the community of Japanese intellectuals. It is the first such complex attempt to portray the identity of a city pulsating with street protests and political happenings, frequent in Japan in the 1960s. The collage form of the film symbolized new wave experiments, a demonstration of creativity. It is a performative variation on the theme of Tokyo. Captured just before the global end of the Summer of Love.
text:
Łukasz Mańkowski
Toshio Matsumoto
1961 Nishijin / The Weavers of Nishijin (short)
1968 Tsuburekakatta migime no tame ni / For the Damaged Right Eye (short)
1969 Żałobna parada róż / Bara no sōretsu / Funeral Parade of Roses
1971 Demony / Shura / Demons
1987 Engram: Kuoku konseki / Engram (short)
1988 Dogura Magura / Dogra Magra
