Featuring some of Terayama’s most dazzling and truly experimental films, this program includes his haunting meditation on shadow and/as cinema, Shadow Film, as well as his celebrated The Eraser, which gives rough texture and violence to the intertwined acts of memory and forgetting. Henrikku Morisaki will introduce the program and enact Terayama’s important film performances, Laura and The Trial, the latter a radically interactive film that invites the audience to join in a symbolic desecration and reinvention of the movie screen.

Followed by a conversation between curator and scholar Julian Ross; Chizuru Usui, Assistant Curator, National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; long-time Terayama collaborator and Tenjo Sajiki member Henrikku Morisaki and Alexander Zahlten, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard.