Screening of A.K.A. Serial Killer and Conversation

Join us at e-flux Screening Room on Friday, March 24 at 7 pm for a screening of Masao Adachi’s A.K.A. Serial Killer (1969, 86 minutes), followed by a video conversation with the filmmaker.

Among Adachi’s most audacious works, A.K.A. Serial Killer (1969) was the film that defined “landscape theory”: the radical Marxist theory asserting that the visible landscape around us is an expression of dominant political power. What can a camera that films a landscape reveal about the social and political structures of a particular place and time? The screening inaugurates the Landscape Theory: Post-1968 Radical Cinema in Japan program curated by Go Hirasawa and Ethan Spigland.

The program is co-presented with Pratt Institute, and co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation.

Masao Adachi, A.K.A. Serial Killer (1969, 86 minutes)
To put “landscape theory” into practice, Adachi focused on the story of a nineteen-year-old boy, Norio Nagayama, who had recently been convicted for the 1969 murders of four people in four different Japanese cities. Rather than filming the protagonist of the film directly, Adachi decided to turn the camera 180 degrees and film the landscapes that the young man may have encountered during his wanderings, from his birth until his arrest. These images are accompanied by Adachi’s restrained voiceover reciting the facts of his life set to an incendiary free jazz score.

For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.

Accessibility              
–Two flights of stairs lead up to the building’s front entrance at 172 Classon Avenue.   
–For elevator access, please RSVP to program@e-flux.com. The building has a freight elevator which leads into the e-flux office space. Entrance to the elevator is nearest to 180 Classon Ave (a garage door). We have a ramp for the steps within the space.            
–e-flux has an ADA-compliant bathroom. There are no steps between the Screening Room and this bathroom.