Among Japan’s most prolific and adventurous filmmakers, Takashi Makino is known for hallucinatory, non-linear films that harness techniques from the twin media of film and video, treating both image and sound with equal importance. Tonight he presents Space Noise 3D, an immersive live cinema work for 16mm and video projectors, live soundtrack, smoke machine and 3D glasses, giving a physical presence to the images beyond the screen. The work is preceded by three short films, all featuring the music of Jim O’Rourke.

Program

No is E, 2006, 23min, music by Jim O'Rourke.

still in cosmos, 2009, 17min, music by Jim O'Rourke, Chris Corsano, and Darin Gray.

Generator, 2011, 19min, music by Jim O'Rourke.

Space Noise 3D, 2014, 30min music by Takashi Makino

Makino Takashi is an experimental filmmaker who lives and works in Tokyo. He creates and exhibits films that make full use of all film and video techniques, treating the image and the music as elements of equal importance. In 2001, after graduating from the Cinema Department of Nihon University College of Art, Makino moved to London to study music and lighting design at the atelier of the Brothers Quay. Makino continued to make films after returning to Japan and has held solo screenings regularly since 2004. He met Jim O’Rourke in 2005, which accelerated his filmmaking pace. His film, No is E won the Terayama Shuji Prize at the Image Forum Festival 2007. Makino was prominently featured at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008, where Elements of Nothing was nominated for the Tiger Award. Since then his films have been invited for screenings at more than 30 international film festivals and video art festivals. In 2009, still in cosmos won the Grand-Prix at the 25FPS International Experimental Film & Video Festival 2009.