Curators’ bios

Roland Domenig is an assistant professor at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, whose work focuses on Japanese film history. He has curated numerous Japanese film programs in addition to translating and writing subtitles for Japanese films. He organized a comprehensive retrospective on the Art Theatre Guild at the 2003 Vienna International Film Festival and also edited the accompanying bilingual catalogue.

Go Hirasawa is a film historian at Meiji Gakuin University, Tokyo, specializing in 1960s cinema. He has organized several retrospectives and is the editor of Underground Film Archives (2001), Wakamatsu Koji Hankenryoku no Shozo (2007) and Nagisa Oshima Chosakushu (2008), among other books.


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