Jonouchi Motoharu

Jonouchi Motoharu played an important part in physiqueing and collect a wide variety of artistic institutions. He similarly organize and governed many of anti-art groups that included the cinema club formed at Nihon University, the Neo-Dada Club, and a cinematic research center known as VAN. His works demo the devastation of what took place in lacquer during World War II. It incorporates the experiences of the soldiers and civilians who were touch on by the nuclear warfare of that time.The frailty of life is a major(ip) subject of the picture palaces. People are shown in their vulnerability and the audience is allowed to pick up them from the perspective of the universewhich shows humans as tiny and inconsequential. It also shows the sex act ease with which citizenrys cash in ones chipss can be destroyed. The films contained in this demonstrate are Hi Red place Shelter Plan, Wols, Gewaltopia Trailer, and Shinjuku ship. Showing these Motoharu films unneurotic highligh ts the violence that drives many of the processes of life.In the film Hi Red Center Shelter Plan, one views an initial short of body measurements. Male and young-bearing(prenominal) figures are shown laid out and their measurements taken. These picture images shown at the beginning represent a comparison of the gender figures. One man is shown lying stark naked in the bathtub, and the coldness of the picture of him being measured like shopping centre or material is poignant in its representation of the meaningless of generosity when life is looked at on grander scales.Men and women are measured in different positions. They are made to stand facing the camera, and the made to one shot around showing their backs toward the camera. They are also made to lie on the bed or to lie upside down on the bed.The film Wols features a rapid montage of surreal pictures with changes occurring in a flair that shocks the senses. Each picture is shot at different angles to create an eve greate r shock on the senses, and to give a quick and flying image of perspectives. The Gewaltopia Trailer opens with a short of a right inwardness stenciled or branded with some Japanese words. These words are create verbally on the eyelid. It is followed by twain shots showing nuclear explosions. The sounds used in this films beginning and ending sequence is the voice of a woman moaning. The content of the film is very violent.People are shown with bemused expressions on their faces. The entire film is filled with body parts of these people on which Japanese characters have been stenciled. Images of destruction are rampant, with such figures as King Kong and hellish features of life. Many images of fighting and union demonstrations are also found in the film. The camera angles itself from above and shoots down at the city representing increasing Japanese powerThe final film by Jonouchi Motoharu, Shinjuku Station begins with a devastated world in shambles. People are shown passing by Shinjuku Station and cars are shot as they drive along the roadway. A man comes on the screen speaking Japanese and it is clear from his noise that he is upset. Despite his speech being in Japanese, he continuously repeats the word station. Over and over he says the word in this barbaric tone. The scene finally changes to a shot of a wide, grassy bowl and then the screen goes to black. This black screen is purposefully left to be viewed by audiences for approximately a minute. The music continues for this period of blackness in which the audience is left to think about what they have seen.Humanitys contribution to the violence in the universe is the them of Jonouchis works. Two of his films, Gewaltopia Trailer, and Shinjuku Station, form part of a series called Gewaltopia. This word is made up of two parts Gewalt, which is German for violence and a truncation of the word utopia. This desire is characteristic of the films produced by Motoharu. He seeks to illuminate the world in which we live and highlight how its inhabitants (primarily humans) revel in the violence that they are instrumental in creating. The four films are shown together to highlight this fact, and as a elbow room of demonstrating the historical and artistic significance of the war in demonstrating humanitys culture of violence.Works CitedJonouchi Motoharu Program. Anthology Film Archives. http//www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/schedule/search/film/?id=8528& visor=400&widt h=730Motoharu, Jonouchi. Hi Red Center Shelter Plan. 18minutes 16mm. Japan 1964. . Wols. 18minutes 16mm. Japan 1964.. Gewaltpia Trailer. 13minutes 16mm. Japan 1969. . Shinjuku Station. 14minutes 16mm. Japan 1964.