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Julian Ross Curriculum Vitae January 2015

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Dr JULIAN AKIRA ROSS

I. PERSONAL RECORD Correspondence Address: Stuurmankade 2 1019 KR, Amsterdam the Netherlands Telephone: (+31) 6 39304160 E-mail: [email protected] Date of birth: 02/01/1988 ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

University of Leeds 2009 - 2014 PhD at the Centre of World Cinema, School of Modern Languages & Cultures ‘Beyond the Frame: Intermedia and Expanded Cinema in 1960-1970s Japan’

Queen Mary University of London

2006 - 2009 BA in Film Studies – First Class Honours 2002 - 2006 Lancaster Royal Grammar School 5 As in A-Levels: English Literature, History, Art, Japanese, & Film Studies 11 GCSEs: 4 A* and 7 As II. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE TEACHING POSITIONS 2011 – 2012 Lecturer, Seminar Tutor and Module Convenor (University of Leeds) BA Introduction to World Cinema I BA Introduction to World Cinema II 2010 - 2012 Lecturer at School of Modern Languages and Cultures (University of Leeds) MA World Cinemas: Core Module 2012 Supervisor of 1 MA dissertation (University of Leeds) 2011 Workshop Leader at School of Modern Languages and Cultures (University of Leeds) BA (Workshop): Introduction to Literature and Film Analysis 2010 Seminar Tutor at Institute of Communication Studies (University of Leeds) BA Cinematic Themes FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS 2012 – 2013 Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship 2009 – 2012 White Rose Research Studentship 2011 Japan Foundation Intellectual Exchange Conferences Grant Japan Foundation Films Showing Abroad Grant Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Small Grant Worldwide Universities Network: Research Mobility Programme Grant 2009 Westfield Award (Queen Mary University of London) 2007 Film First Year Prize (Queen Mary University of London) OTHER AFFILIATIONS Member of BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) Member of AAH (Association of Art Historians)


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PUBLICATIONS Chapters in Books

‘Projection as Performance: The Degrees of Intermediality in Japan’s Expanded Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s’ in Lúcia Nagib and Anne Jerslev (eds.) Impure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film. London/New York: I.B. Tauris, 2014. ‘Eiga ni okure chokusetsu kōdō’ [Direct Action for Cinema] in Susumu Takebana (ed.), Akasegawa Genpei. Tokyo: Kawade, 2014. [in Japanese] ‘In the Realm of the Senses’ in Sabine Haenni, Sarah Barrow and John White (eds.), Routledge Encyclopaedia of Films, New York/London: Routledge, 2014.

‘Geologic Time, the Anthropocene and Earthquake Sensitives: Interview with Kodwo Eshun’ in Sonic Acts (eds.), Geologic Imagination. Amsterdam: Sonic Acts, 2015.

Articles in Journals ‘Reception of Japanese Experimental Films in European Film Festivals and Museums in the 1960s and 1970s’, Gengo Bunka, 30, 2014. [in Japanese]

‘Circle the Square: Film Performances of Iimura Takahiko 1963-1970’, Post, Museum of Modern Art <post.at.moma.org>, 2013. http://post.at.moma.org/content_items/290-circle-the-square-film-performances-by-iimura-takahiko-in-the-1960s ‘Site and Specificity in Japanese Expanded Cinema: Intermedia and its Development in the late-60s’ in Décadrages, 21. (2013) [in French (print) and English (online)] http://www.decadrages.ch/site-and-specificity-japanese-expanded-cinema-intermedia-and-its-development-late-60s-julian-ross

Publication as Editor Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema (Intellect) Guest Editor – Issue 3.1 (2012) Forthcoming Publications Editor The Art Theatre Guild: A Chronicle of Japanese Independent Cinema Co-editor with Roland Domenig and Go Hirasawa (2016) I.B. Tauris World Cinema Series [contract signed] Articles or Chapters in Books

‘From Landscape Suicide (1986) to Stemple Pass (2013): James Benning as a fūkeiron artist' in Nuno Barradas Jorge and Tiago de Luca (eds.), Slow Cinema. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2015. (final draft submitted)

‘Curating the Moving Image: Reenacting Expanded Cinema,’ in Fiona Noble, Rebecca Ferreboeuf and Tara Plunkett (eds.), Preservation, Radicalism and the Avant-Garde Canon. London: Palgrave McMillan, forthcoming 2015. (first draft submitted)

‘Experimental Cinema’ in Hideaki Fujiki and Alastair Philips (eds.) The Japanese Cinema Book. London: BFI, forthcoming 2016. (second draft submitted) ‘Artists’ Film in Japan’ in David Desser (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Japanese Cinema. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming, 2017.


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CONFERENCE ORGANISATION 2015 Panel Co-convenor A Slideshow Effect? The Photographers’ Gallery (London): January 15th 2013 Workshop Co-convenor Japanese Cinema Revisited National Film Centre (Tokyo) & Meiji Gakuin University: February 22-23rd

Funding: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) 2011 Symposium Co-convenor ‘Art Theatre Guild of Japan: Spaces for Intercultural and Intermedial Cinema’ Birkbeck College, University of London: July 30-31st Funding: Japan Foundation & Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation 2010 Symposium Coordinator ‘Breaking Boundaries: Alternative Approaches to Japanese Film’ University of Leeds: November 6th [24th Leeds International Film Festival] Funding: Worldwide Universities Network SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS 2015 Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Queen Elizabeth Hotel: March 25-29th

Panel: East Asian Avant-Garde Film and Video 2014 40th AAH (Association of Art Historians) Royal College of Art, London: April 10-12th Panel: Projecting Time and History - Cinema and/as Gallery Art Paper: From Performance to Installation: Yamanaka Nobuo's River series (1971-73) 2013 Hyōshō Bunkaron Gakkai Kansai University, Osaka: June 29-30th Pre-constituted Panel: Displays [in Japanese] Paper: ‘Psychedelic Shows: Film “Displays” of the Underground’ 2013 Media Histories/Media Theories in East Asia UC Berkeley, San Francisco: February 7-8th ‘Projections Beyond the Screen: Outdoor Film Projections in Japanese Expanded Cinema of the 1960-70s’ 2012 Histories of Film Theories in East Asia University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: September 27-30th ‘Intāmedia: Early Developments in the Theorization of Intermediality in Japan’ 2012 British Association of Japanese Studies Conference 2012 University of East Anglia: September 6-7th Pre-constituted Panel: Beyond the Shot, Frame and Page Paper: ‘Cine-Dance: Hijikata Tatsumi and butoh dance in Japanese experimental and

popular cinema of the 1960s’ 2011 Conference: KineClub XI: Japanese Cinema Spaces and Film Environments University of Vienna: November 25-27th ‘The Body or the Machine: Spaces for Intermedia and Expanded Cinema in 1960s Japan’


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INVITED - SYMPOSIA, SEMINAR AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS 2015 Presentation - Panel The Photographers' Gallery: January 15th 2014 Presentation - Symposium University of Westminster: November 14th Presentation - Public Lecture Asia Art Archive in America: May 1st Presentation - C-MAP Museum of Modern Art: April 30th 2013 Presentation - Seminar Series [in Japanese] Meiji Gakuin University: June 14th Presentation - Seminar Series [in Japanese] Tokyo University of the Arts: May 8th 2012-2013 Workshop Participation [in Japanese] Keio University Art Center, Tokyo: December 21st 2012 & January 28th 2013 ARCMA Project: Media Arts Archive 2012 Presentation - Workshop National University of Singapore: December 3-4th

The Animate Image: Theorizing the Reproducible Image in Asia Presentation - Workshop University of Glasgow: September 8th Paper - Symposium Shuji Terayama Film and Performance Retrospective Symposium Tate Modern: March 23rd Review: http://www.artforum.com/film/id=30753 2011 Paper - Symposium Visual Underground: Theatre Scorpio & Japanese Experimental Cinema of the Sixties McGill University, Montreal: September 16-18th Paper - Workshop Cinema and Intermediality RMIT University, Melbourne: June 24th PANEL CHAIR 2013 Japanese Cinema Revisited, Workshop at Meiji Gakuin University. 2011 KineClub XI: Japanese Cinema Spaces and Film Environments, University of Vienna The Art Theatre Guild of Japan Season Introduction, BFI Southbank GUEST LECTURES 2012-14 11th, 12th & 14th Nippon Connection Film Festival: Frankfurt (May-June) 2013 Uplink [in Japanese]: April 14th Dommune [in Japanese]: April 1st & April 3rd 2012 Place M Gallery Tokyo [in Japanese]: October 27th Japan Foundation London: June 27th


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University of Porto, Portugal: May 23rd

2011 University of Wolverhampton: March 2nd III. RELEVANT EXPERIENCE FILM CURATING Film Programmer 2014- International Film Festival Rotterdam IFFR Shorts http://www.iffr.com/short Curator 2014 Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam (21 October) E*Cinema – Takahiko Iimura Rongwrong, Amsterdam (20 October) Screen Play – An evening with Takahiko Iimura http://www.rongwrong.org/Screen-Play Naxoshelle, Frankfurt (1 June) Travels in Experimental Film: In & Out of Japan http://bit.ly/1kLZpsS Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam (18 February) E*Cinema – In & Out of Japan http://www.eyefilm.nl/en/ecinema-in-out-of-japan 2011 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (19 November) Enter the Cosmos: Takashi Makino http://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/enter-cosmos-takashi-makino-special Apiary Studios, London (21 November) Seasons Inter View: Takashi Makino http://www.apiarystudios.org/2011/11/seasons-inter-view-takashi-makino/ British Film Institute, London (3 August) Essential Experiments: Iimura Takahiko Programme http://bit.ly/1fUw6so Close-Up Film Centre, London (1-31 July) Theatre Scorpio: Japanese Independent and Experimental Cinema of the 1960s http://bit.ly/1kMap9H Assistant Curator 2012 - 2013 Museum of Modern Art, New York (1 December - 25 February) Art Theater Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1337 2013 Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley (7-27 February) Chronicles of Inferno: Films from the Art Theater Guild of Japan http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries/ATG 2011 British Film Institute, London (1-31 August) Shinjuku Diaries: Films from the Art Theatre Guild of Japan


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http://bit.ly/1qecZxw Co-Curator 2013 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (February) Fragments of Japanese Underground Cinema 1960-1974 http://www.ybca.org/japanese-underground-cinema Anthology Film Archives, New York (February) Rituals in the Avant-Garde: Film Experiments in 1960s-1970s Japan http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/40557 2012 Gasworks, London (May) The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without

Images (only the film programme) http://gasworks.org.uk/events/detail.php?id=766 Deutsches Filmmuseum (May) Gewaltopia – Images of Protest http://deutsches-filminstitut.de/blog/nippon-connection/ 2011 Flat Time House, London (July) Motoharu Jonouchi: Three Films http://flattimeho.org.uk/events/motoharu-jonouchi/ Nottingham Contemporary (January) Motoharu Jonouchi http://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/art/motoharu-jonouchi Advisor 2012 Tate Modern Shuji Terayama http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/eventseries/shuji-terayama Pumphouse Gallery Art & Activism in Contemporary Japan http://pumphousegallery.org.uk/participation/art-and-activism/ PUBLIC INTRODUCTIONS TO FILM SCREENINGS 2010 - present United Kingdom: Tate Modern, British Film Institute, Institute of Contemporary Arts,

Arnolfini; North America: Anthology Film Archives, Pacific Film Archives, Microscope Gallery, Concordia University and Europe: International Film Festival Rotterdam, Nippon Connection, Frankfurt, Leeds International Film Festival.

FILM CRITICISM Written for Film Comment, Indiewire and Aesthetica Magazine. 2014 Locarno Critic's Academy 2013 - present Editor, Vertigo http://www.vertigomagazine.co.uk/ 2012 - present Staff Writer, Desistfilm http://www.desistfilm.com/ 2010 - 2013 Commissioning Editor, Vertigo 2011 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam 13th Trainee Project for Young Film Critics TRANSLATION WORK Native Languages: English and Japanese


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Interpreter 2011- present MoMA (2013), Tate Modern (2012), Japan Image Council (2013), IFFR (2011-12),

IDFA (2013) and more. Subtitlist 2014 - present Various TV dramas and films for Vesuvius and Azur Productions 2012 Six feature-length films and one short for the Art Theatre Guild touring season at MoMA. Two short films for the Shuji Terayama season at Tate Modern. 2011 One feature-length film for Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival One feature-length film for Close-Up Film Centre Translator 2011- present Translation work (Japanese to English) for academic journals, film festival catalogues and press kits. Academic Articles: 2015 Oshima, Nagisa. 'The Happiness of The Hunters' in Angelos Koutsourakis (ed.), untitled book on Theodoros Angelopoulos. (submitted) Oshima, Nagisa. 'The Camerawork of Hope' in Angelos Koutsourakis (ed.), untitled book on Theodoros Angelopoulos. (submitted) Matsui, Shigeru. 'A Platonic sold that coughs: 'Mechanism,' 'Algorithm' and 'Displacement'' details tbc. (submitted) 2013 Hirasawa Go & Alberto Toscano. 'Walls of Flesh: The Films of Koji Wakamatsu (1965-1972), Film Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 4 (Summer): 41-49. 2012 Wakamatsu, Koji. 'Masao Adachi, kamaitachi' in Masao Adachi. Festival Internatcional de Cinema/Universidad nacional Autonoma de Mexico, pp. 205-6. Originally published in 1968. IV. REFEREES 1) Professor Lúcia Nagib 2) Dr. Yuriko Furuhata Professor of Film Department of East Asian Studies Department of Film, Theatre and Television McGill University University of Reading McTavish 3434, Rm 405 Shinfield Road, Reading, RG6 6BT Montreal, Quebec, H3A 1X9 Tel: (+44) (0)118 378 4084 Canada Fax: (+44) (0)118 378 4089 Tel: (+1) 512-398-8164 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] 3) Dr. Roland Domenig Department of Art Studies Meiji Gakuin University 1-2-3-7 Shirokanedai Minato, Tokyo 108-8636, Japan E-mail: [email protected]

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