The cinematograph invented by the Lumière brothers took Paris by storm in 1895. Industrialist INABATA Katsutaro was
instrumental in organizing Japan’s first cinematograph screening two years later, in 1897. At this event, 120 years after the
cinematograph’s arrival in Japan, panelists will unfurl the history of the moving image since then, examining the future that it
created to reach where we are today.

Date 2.17 Fri. 18:30-20:30
Venue Auditorium of the Maison franco-japonaise

Panelists
KOMATSU Hiroshi, Professor of Studies in Theatre and Film Arts, Waseda University
OKADA Hidenori, Curator of Film, National Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
UEDA Manabu, Part-time Lecturer, Nihon University College of Art

MC
OKA Mariko, Aoyama Gakuin University, Maison franco-japonaise

Moderator
ENDO Miyuki, Assistant Curator, Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions / Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

M. Auzolle Poster for “Cinématographe Lumière,” 1895 or later, Collection of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum